different between cessation vs abortion

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French cessation, itself a borrowing from Latin cess?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /s??se???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

cessation (countable and uncountable, plural cessations)

1. (formal) A ceasing or discontinuance, for example of an action, whether temporary or final.

   • it might be advisable to permit the temporary cessation of the papal inquisition

   • 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI

     The day […] was […] yearly observ'd for a festival Day by cessation from Labour.

Synonyms

• (temporary): hiatus, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause
• (final): close, endpoint, terminus; see also Thesaurus:finish

Translations

Anagrams

• canoeists, sonicates

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cess?ti?. Morphologically, from cesser +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.sa.sj??/

Noun

cessation f (plural cessations)

1. cessation

Further reading

• “cessation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Latin aborti?nem (“miscarriage, abortion”), from aborior (“to miscarry”). Equivalent to abort +? -ion. Displaced earlier Middle English abort (“abortion”), from the same Latin origin.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??b??.?n?/, enPR: ??bôrsh?n
• Rhymes: -??(?)??n

Noun

abortion (countable and uncountable, plural abortions)

1. (medicine) The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus; either naturally as a spontaneous abortion (now usually called a miscarriage), or deliberately as an induced abortion. [from 16th c.]
   • 1809, William Nicholson, The British Encyclopaedia, vol IV:

     At any time after impregnation, abortion may take place: it is one of the most common complaints of pregnancy, whence it is a matter of no small consequence that every practitioner should well understand it.

   • 2017, Ben Jacobs, The Guardian, 5 October:

     Representative Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania will resign from Congress after claims that the anti-abortion Republican had urged a woman he was having an extramarital affair with to have an abortion.

2. (now rare) An aborted foetus; an abortus. [from 16th c.]
   • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 657:

     ‘It seems too hairy for an abortion, and too small for a mature birth.’

   • 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own:

     The Fascist poem, one may fear, will be a horrid little abortion such as one sees in a glass jar in the museum of some county town.

3. (figuratively) A misshapen person or thing; a monstrosity. [from 16th c.]
4. (figuratively) Failure or abandonment of a project, promise, goal etc. [from 17th c.]
5. (biology) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. [from 18th c.]
6. The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.

Synonyms

• abort (obsolete), abortus
• (induced abortion): aborticide, feticide, foeticide, termination (of pregnancy)
• (act of terminating pregnancy): aborticide, embryoctony, feticide, foeticide, termination (of pregnancy)
• (spontaneous abortion): miscarriage, misbirth

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• abortion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• boration, orbation, rainboot