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Definition of Successiveness
1. Noun. A following of one thing after another in time. "The doctor saw a sequence of patients"
Generic synonyms: Temporal Arrangement, Temporal Order
Specialized synonyms: Pelting, Rain, Rotation, Row, Run
Derivative terms: Sequence, Sequence, Sequential, Succeed, Successive
Definition of Successiveness
1. n. The quality or state of being successive.
Definition of Successiveness
1. Noun. The quality or state of being successive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Successiveness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Successiveness
Literary usage of Successiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Scientific Ideas: Being the First Part of The Philosophy of the by William Whewell (1858)
"This perpetual and latent kind of memory may be termed a sense of successiveness;
and must be considered as an internal sense by which we perceive ourselves ..."
2. History of Scientific Ideas: Being the First Part of The Philosophy of the by William Whewell (1858)
"This perpetual and latent kind of memory may be termed a sense of successiveness;
and must be considered as an internal sense by which we perceive ourselves ..."
3. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History by William Whewell (1847)
"... be termed a sense of successiveness ; and must be considered as an internal
sense by which we perceive ourselves existing in time, much in the same way ..."
4. Proceedings of Conference LXII, 8th Joint Meeting of the U. S. Japan by R. L. Wesson (1995)
"The successiveness of seismic activity is grouped into three types, namely, ...
The successiveness of earthquake occurrence in and around Japan was studied ..."
5. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume (1890)
"But when it comes to a ' feeling of time '—a feeling of the successiveness of
all feelings—the incompatibility between what is said of feeling as the object ..."
6. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1874)
"But when it comes to a ' feeling of time'—a feeling of the successiveness of all
feelings—the incompatibility between what is said of feeling as the object ..."
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