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 After his death, in 1985, Charles prevailed in a succession battle with his older brother, Murray. — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026 Liquidity, cybersecurity, backup capacity, strong controls and succession pipelines carry costs. — Erik Clarke, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026 But now that Robyn has returned to the fold, the Green-Eyed Bandits are experiencing something of a succession crisis. — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2026 Before, princesses who did so lost their royal status, meaning their children are ineligible for the line of succession; the most recent being Mako, one of Naruhito’s nieces. — Chad De Guzman, Time, 26 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for succession

Recent Examples of Synonyms for succession

Noun

The team trails 2-1 in the series and will look to even the series before the Finals return to San Francisco for game five on Monday night.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
The six-episode, 30-minutes-per-episode series is as breezy as the Irish coast’s weather.

— Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of series

Noun

Arab Israelis of Palestinian descent make up 20% of the population but are often seen with suspicion because of their sympathies with other Palestinians.

— Cara Anna, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
In theory, the war’s descent into a painful stalemate should open the door to diplomatic outcomes.

— ALLISON MINOR, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of descent

Noun

The king announces that whoever can lift and string a sacred bow belonging to the Hindu deity Shiva may marry his daughter, Sita.

— Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
The groom, who is close enough in age to feel more like a cousin, sends them on a quick errand that turns into a string of misadventures, leaving the trio at risk of missing the wedding altogether.

— Essie Assibu, Variety, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of string

Noun

Reconciling competing visions of reality depends on continuously normalizing disparate vendor inputs into a unified GTM data model, scoring source reliability, assessing recency and maintaining complete lineage tracking.

— Filip Popovic, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
As ecologist Doug Tallamy has chronicled, over 90% of herbivorous insects specialize on one or a few native plant lineages.

— Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of lineage

Noun

So is all change for the better, like birth and death, which convulse the body.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
In stark contrast to the organic, pictorial design of the Nativity Façade on the opposite side of the basilica, which depicts the birth of Jesus, Gaudí employed skeletal forms to evoke human suffering and Christ’s final days.

— Livia Caligor, Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of birth

Noun

Next might follow fears about contagion, vulnerability, age, or heredity and how these may affect body and mind.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2026
Havighorst, an executive director of institutional advancement at Prairie State College, was diagnosed with a form of CMT 2 1/2 years ago called heredity neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies.

— Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of heredity

Noun

Even though relations between the pair had been publicly disintegrating for weeks, Stevens' announcement was a surprise.

— Barbara Sprunt, NPR, 1 Nov. 2026
She’s expected to continue Radev’s policy of keeping Bulgaria on its European path, while also supporting better relations with Russia and the lifting of sanctions.

— Veselin Toshkov, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026