the.com/hiatus

means A pause or gap in something that would otherwise be continuous — a show, a career, a conversation — that's still technically ongoing, just... not right now.

from From Latin 'hiatus,' meaning a gap, opening, or yawning cleft, from 'hiare' — to gape or stand open, like a mouth mid-yawn. The word first described literal gaps (in rock, in speech between vowel sounds) before English bent it toward the metaphorical gap: the open space in time where something used to be happening and, allegedly, will happen again.