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    SUCCESSIVENESS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A following of one thing after another in timeplay

    Example:

    the doctor saw a sequence of patients

    Synonyms:

    chronological sequence; chronological succession; sequence; succession; successiveness

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    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)

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