SUCCESSION Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

succession

noun

Definition of succession

as in series

a series of things, people, events, or actions arranged or happening one after another He experienced a succession of car repairs that set him back thousands of dollars.

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as in descent

the order of people in a family The prince is third in the line of succession to the throne.

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Recent Examples of succession Beatrice and her daughters currently sit in the 9th, 10th and 11th spots in the line of succession. — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026 Bridges first emerged on the stand-up circuit in 2004, shortly after his 17th birthday, and has since entertained more than two million fans worldwide across a succession of record-breaking arena tours. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2026 According to the investigative report, video evidence showed two electrical arcing events occurring in quick succession on an out-of-service transmission line. — James Ward, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2026 Three more entries will be published here in swift succession over the next few months. — Jan Tumlir, Artforum, 5 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for succession

Recent Examples of Synonyms for succession

Noun

Winding hallways take you further into this interconnected series of buildings.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026
Chamblee Rocks This season’s Chamblee Rocks series concludes with a Boy Band Review, paying tribute to the biggest hits from the boy bands of the ’90s and early 2000s, including ‘N Sync, Backstreet Boys and New Kids on the Block.

— Mary Caldwell, AJC.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of series

Noun

The Italian supreme court’s abolition of 2024 restrictions on citizenship by descent means American families who’d been torn apart by the new legislation can now be reunited.

— Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
In the guest book, in 2024, a guest creatively wrote a six-entry (three days and three nights) account of their stay there, a descent into madness at the hands of the structure’s steady creaking and the sounds of twigs snapping in the woods below.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of descent

Noun

Java Films, which took worldwide distribution rights in January, has also revealed a mid-October release for the film, which has played a string of festivals including Austin, Palm Springs and Cleveland.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 Aug. 2026
Claypool swapped his four-string bass for a six-string, a bigger, heftier slab of wood that could support even lower notes.

— Sasha Geffen, Pitchfork, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of string

Noun

Listing agent Kristina Agustin of Vista Sotheby’s International Realty said the land carries a deeper local lineage than most lifestyle properties that change hands in California wine regions.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Gone are the days of fragmented, point product solutions for capabilities like data lineage, business glossaries, data quality, MDM and yes, catalogs.

— Susan Laine, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Definition of lineage

Noun

Central to Burbank’s thesis was his belief that environment mattered as much, if not more, than heredity.

— The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 25 June 2026
Political figures within Iran criticized the idea of handing over the supreme leader’s title based on heredity and thereby creating a clerical version of the rule of the shah, who was toppled during the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

— Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2026

Definition of heredity

Noun

Postwar intellectuals used psychoanalytic ideas in a variety of ways, including to discuss race relations and homosexuality.

— Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 4 Aug. 2026
Rather, the pivotal transactions, graphed like the peaks and valleys of a volatile stock index, are the relations between men and women.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026