SUCCESSIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does successiveness mean? 

• SUCCESSIVENESS (noun)
  The noun SUCCESSIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. a following of one thing after another in time

  Familiarity information: SUCCESSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUCCESSIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A following of one thing after another in time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

chronological sequence; chronological succession; sequence; succession; successiveness

Context example:

the doctor saw a sequence of patients

Hypernyms ("successiveness" is a kind of...):

temporal arrangement; temporal order (arrangement of events in time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "successiveness"):

pelting; rain (anything happening rapidly or in quick successive)

rotation (a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.))

row (a continuous chronological succession without an interruption)

run (an unbroken chronological sequence)

Derivation:

successive (in regular succession without gaps)