intersticenoun [ C usually plural ]
uk/ɪnˈtɜː.stɪs/us/ɪnˈtɝː.stɪs/formala space between things or events:
The wall was old and crumbling with plants growing in the interstices between/in/of the bricks.
a story told in snapshots, leaving the reader to fill in the interstices
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Holes, hollows and dips
- aperture
- cleft
- cranny
- dent
- depression
- dimple
- dip
- donga
- eyehole
- intake
- orifice
- pinhole
- pit
- porosity
- porous
- puncture
- riddled
- semipermeable
- tear 1
- wormhole
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