suc·ces·sive

(sək-sĕs′ĭv)

adj.

1. Following in uninterrupted order; consecutive: on three successive days.

2. Of, characterized by, or involving succession: the government successive to the fallen monarchy.

suc·ces′sive·ly adv.

suc·ces′sive·ness n.

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Noun

successiveness - a following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients"

chronological sequence, chronological succession, succession, sequence

temporal arrangement, temporal order - arrangement of events in time

pelting, rain - anything happening rapidly or in quick successive; "a rain of bullets"; "a pelting of insults"

rotation - a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.); "crop rotation makes a balanced demand on the fertility of the soil"; "the manager had only four starting pitchers in his rotation"

row - a continuous chronological succession without an interruption; "they won the championship three years in a row"

run - an unbroken chronological sequence; "the play had a long run on Broadway"; "the team enjoyed a brief run of victories"

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so terribly and so untidily expanded its endless successiveness.

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Because of this successiveness, determining the division between detecting and approaching prey was difficult.

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In Benjamin Fundoianu, "the interferences represent a problem of simultaneity rather than one of successiveness"; there is an "unconscious vitality," suggesting deep intensity and tumult, inhabiting poems, springing in saccates and being contrapuntal in relation with the external calm appearance of the landscape (Martin 1978: XXX).

And so much sleep, and death, and white is in my soul