feriation

/fɛɹiˈeɪʃən/

Etymology

From Latin ferior (“to keep holiday”), from feriae (“holidays”).

feriation means A holiday or break from work or effort. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

Why this word is great

FERIATION — [Noun] A formal cessation from work and effort; a holiday or day of rest. From Latin feriari ("to keep holiday"), from feriae ("holidays"). Unlike "vacation," which implies a modern, self-directed itinerary of leisure, or "furlough," which denotes a temporary, institutionalized release with an expectation of return, feriation is the ceremonial state of abstention itself. It is the profound quiet of a shuttered factory, the hollow ring of an empty school corridor, and the unplowed field lying fallow—a collective, conscious pause that honors the human need for intermission, a brief, deliberate crack in the edifice of productivity through which the antique light of mere existence still filters.

noun

A holiday or break from work or effort.“And therefore as though there were any feriation in nature or justitiums imaginable in professions, whose subject is natural, and under no intermissive, but constant way of mutation, this season is commonly termed the physician's vacation, and stands so received by most men.”