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succession

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of succession

1 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.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of succession

catena, catenation, chain, concatenation, consecution, nexus, progression, sequence, series, string, train

file, line, queue, range, row

echelon, rank, row, tier

belt, circle, cycle, vicious circle (also vicious cycle)

continuum, gamut, gauntlet (also gantlet), scale, spectrum

flow, river, stream

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of succession

confusion, disorder, disorganization, disruption, upset

disconnection, disjointedness

2 the order of people in a family

The prince is third in the line of succession to the throne.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of succession

ancestry, birth, blood, bloodline, breeding, descent, extraction, family tree, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stock, strain

kin, kindred, relations, relatives

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