postponement vs pause

postponement and pause both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
postponement	Yes	No	No	No
pause	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, pause is a hypernym of postponement; that is, pause is a word with a broader meaning than postponement:

postponement: time during which some action is awaited
pause: a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

Other hypernyms of postponement include break, intermission, interruption, suspension.

postponement (noun)	pause (noun)
act of putting off to a future time	temporary inactivity
time during which some action is awaited	a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

postponement (verb)	pause (verb)
	cease an action temporarily
	interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing