successivenessn.
The state or quality of being successive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun]
successionc1405
progression1483
discourse1541
consequency1548
array1576
consequence1597
sequence1597
concatenation1614
catenation1641
pursuance1645
consecution1651
successivenessa1676
sequentialism1848
successivity1866
sequentiality1883
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [noun]
ordera1382
successionc1405
suing?a1425
succeedingc1460
success1546
consequency1548
ensuing1561
consequence1597
sequence1597
pursuit1605
subsequence1610
descent1613
successorship1627
consecution1651
seriation1658
successivenessa1676
successivity1866
diadoche1884
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. vi. 119 The Image whereby it [sc. the Understanding] conceives it, is partly by the successiveness of its own operations.
1829 J. Mill Anal. Human Mind II. xiv. §2. 68 The process of having two ideas in succession, in which process the being sensible of the successiveness is part.
1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xxvii. 305 They are all conventionalised into a monotonous successiveness of nothing.
1878 R. T. H. Bartley tr. P. Topinard Anthropol. Introd. 19 Nature does not make sudden jumps. There is a successiveness observable throughout.
Derivatives
succeˈssivity n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun]
successionc1405
progression1483
discourse1541
consequency1548
array1576
consequence1597
sequence1597
concatenation1614
catenation1641
pursuance1645
consecution1651
successivenessa1676
sequentialism1848
successivity1866
sequentiality1883
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [noun]
ordera1382
successionc1405
suing?a1425
succeedingc1460
success1546
consequency1548
ensuing1561
consequence1597
sequence1597
pursuit1605
subsequence1610
descent1613
successorship1627
consecution1651
seriation1658
successivenessa1676
successivity1866
diadoche1884
1866 Examiner 3 Feb. 70/1 An absolute Being, whose nature..precludes..all successivity and change.
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