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sucˈcessiveness [-ness.] The state or quality of being successive.
a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. vi. (1677) 119 The Image whereby it [sc. the Understanding] conceives it, is partly by the successiveness of its own operations. 1829Mill Hum. Mind xiv. §2 II. 68 The process of having two ideas in succession, in which process the being sensible of the successiveness is part. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. xxvii. §18 They are all conventionalised into a monotonous successiveness of nothing. 1878Bartley tr. Topinard's Anthrop. Introd. 19 Nature does not make sudden jumps. There is a successiveness observable throughout. So succeˈssivity.
1866Examiner 3 Feb. 70/1 An absolute Being, whose nature..precludes..all successivity and change. |