Abeyance

Noun

 * 1)  Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.
 * The proceeds of the estate shall be held in abeyance in an escrow account until the minor reaches age twenty-one.
 * Note: When there is no person in existence in whom an inheritance (or a dignity) can vest, it is said to be in abeyance, that is, in expectation; the law considering it as always potentially existing, and ready to vest whenever a proper owner appears.'' Blackstone
 * 1) Suspension; temporary suppression.
 * 2)  Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
 * ''The broad pennant of a commodore first class has been in abeyance since 1958, together with the rank.

Synonyms for Abeyance
suspension, inaction, dormancy, indecision, suppression, reservation, adjournment.

Antonyms for Abeyance
operation, enforcement, renewal, action, revival, exercise.

Thesaurus
abandonment; abjuration; abjurement; apathy; break; caesura; catalepsy; catatonia; cease-fire; cessation; cold storage; day off; deadliness; deathliness; desistance; discontinuance; doldrums; dormancy; drop; entropy; forbearance; hesitation; holiday; indifference; indolence; inertia; inertness; interim; interlude; intermezzo; intermission; intermittence; interruption; interval; languor; lapse; latency; layoff; letup; lotus-eating; lull; nonexercise; passiveness; passivity; pause; quiescence; quiescency; recess; relinquishment; remission; renouncement; renunciation; resignation; respite; rest; stagnancy; stagnation; stand-down; stasis; stay; suspense; suspension; torpor; truce; vacation; vegetation; vis inertiae; waiver

Etymology
abeance, expectation, longing; a (ad) + baer, beer, to gape, to look with open mouth, to expect,  bayer,  badare to gape.