Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of gaping.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Act of gaping.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete The act of gaping; a gap.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

See hiatus.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word hiation.

Examples

  • It is sufficiently exhibited in the tendency to hiation, and may prove dangerous not only to yourself, but to all thy father's family. "

    The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper 1820

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.