intermittence (n.)
- abeyance
- alternation
- arrhythmia
- beat
- break
- caesura
- capriciousness
- cease-fire
- choppiness
- disconnectedness
- disconnection
- discontinuance
- discontinuation
- discontinuity
- discreteness
- disjunction
- downtime
- drop
- eccentricity
- episode
- fibrillation
- fitfulness
- fluctuation
- hesitation
- holiday
- incoherence
- incompleteness
- inconstancy
- interim
- interlude
- intermezzo
- intermission
- intermittency
- interregnum
- interruption
- interval
- irregularity
- jerkiness
- lapse
- layoff
- letup
- lull
- meter
- nonuniformity
- oscillation
- parenthesis
- patchiness
- pause
- periodicity
- plateau
- pulsation
- reappearance
- recess
- recurrence
- relief
- remission
- respite
- rest
- return
- rhythm
- roughness
- spasticity
- stagger
- stand-down
- stay
- suspension
- truce
- uncertainty
- undulation
- unevenness
- unpredictability
- unsteadiness
- vacation
- variability
- whimsicality
- wobble
