microvacation

plural microvacations · alternative micro-vacation

1. A very brief vacation; a momentary respite from the cares of everyday life.

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   With only a few tree silhouettes, and both the freeways and El Camino Real miraculously silent, for just these moments Ralph Sr., appreciative of peace as anybody, could take another of what he'd come to think of as microvacations on an island of time fragile and precious as any Tahiti or one of them.

   1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland, Penguin Books, published 1991, →ISBN, page 92

   Synonyms: nanobreak