purgatory, twilight zone, quandary, uncertainty, flux, disarray, wrangle, jeopardy, lurch, netherworld, impasse, stalemate, tenterhooks, tatters, logjam, abeyance, morass, shambles, crossroads, void, stasis, dire straits, doldrums, fate, quagmire, treading water, scrapheap, mire, squabbling, indecision, hot potato, conundrum, throes, tangle, loggerheads, bickering, stalling, desperate straits, bereft, quicksand, dickering, dilemma, feuding, unknowns, mull, foundering, revolving door, fuming, maelstrom, sticky wicket, turmoil, technicality, haggling, finality, nightmare, wasteland, dithers, precipice, saga, rut, tailspin, kafkaesque, standstill, predicament, imbroglio, dispute, stopgap, crossfire, enigma, muddle, wiggle room, deadlock, snags, jumble, snafu, byzantine, confusion, lame duck, chaos, fretting, incommunicado, mystery, eternity, ambiguity, mess, terra incognita, tar pit, delays, bind, pall, debating, straitjacket, abyss, upheaval, straightjacket, doghouse, minefield, shadowland, anguishes, gridlock, monkey wrench, damocles, tightrope, legerdemain, impasses, standpoint, realm, dilemmas, inadequacies, preoccupations, purview, quandaries

imaginary place, obscurity

oblivion