successiveness
- noun
- /səkˈsɛsɪvnəs/
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sucesión
- In a successful musical composition, the successiveness of notes creates a captivating melody.
Examples
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The successiveness of the seasons can be clearly seen as winter gives way to spring.
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A walk is ephemeral, but for its duration, it enhances awareness of the spatial and temporal character of the world flowing past the moving body and thereby makes perceptible "the pure successiveness that governs human life."
Academic text (2005) -
Each rung was then imbued with measures, numbers, and sequences, which introduced the successiveness of temporality into Divinity and creation.
Academic text (1990) -
The successiveness of events in the story helped build anticipation for the climax.
Synonyms
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3.2
A set of things or events that come one after another in a specific order
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4.1
A series of people or things that come one after another
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5.1
A series of things that follow a rule, like numbers or chords
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3.8
A list of events in the order they happened
Happening after another event in time or order
Things arranged or done one after another in a set order
A list of events in the order they happened
How Continuous
Surface Forms
Morphology
successiveness = successive (semi-transparent) = success + ive + ness
Forming a noun from 'successive' with -ness is regular and clear, but the connection between 'successive' (meaning 'consecutive') and the more familiar noun 'success' (achievement) may mislead learners.
Etymology
Successiveness goes back to the Latin verb succedere, which means 'to go after', and it is the same root as succeed and successor. So, successiveness means the quality of things happening one after another, in a clear order.