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What is the noun for succession?

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success
  1. (obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result. [16th-18th c.]
  2. The achievement of one's aim or goal. [from 16th c.]
  3. (business) financial profitability.
  4. One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
  5. The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “He considered the training of his pet dog to be a great success.”
      “We need to calculate our chances of success before we invest more money in the business.”
      “The university graduate was now considered a success by his family.”
succession
  1. An act of following in sequence.
  2. A sequence of things in order.
  3. A passing of royal powers.
  4. A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
  5. (obsolete, rare) The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Following a succession of attacks, a large breakaway group moved clear on the first of three laps and opened up a decisive lead over the rest.”
      “It is a chairman's role to manage succession and the Fairfax process has, frankly, been quite pathetic.”
      “A genealogist prepares a list of the royal succession every ten years.”
successor
  1. A person or thing that immediately follows another in holding an office or title.
  2. The next heir in order or succession.
  3. A person who inherits a title or office.
  4. (arithmetic, set theory) The integer, ordinal number or cardinal number immediately following another.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The secretary, treasurer and annalist shall be elected for a two-year term or until a successor is elected.”
      “It appears unlikely that Tung will soon name a successor since Yeoh has until October before abandoning his fief for exile.”
      “The rights and obligations of the Company hereunder shall accrue to its successor and assigns.”
succeeder
  1. One who succeeds (follows after); a successor.
  2. One who succeeds (achieves a positive outcome); a winner.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Respondents in the Succeeder group tended to be more verbal and reflective than those in the other two groups.”
      “At Succeeder Solutions, we guide our students into a safe space where they can really learn.”
successionist
  1. One who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.
    1. (religion) One who insists that only apostolic succession is valid.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Critics of the changes claim that giving Indian communities autonomy could plant the seeds for future successionist movements.”
      “Threaten Saudi Arabia by supporting successionist Shi'ites in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia where a great deal of the Kingdom's oil is located.”
      “The Patriarch has expressed concern over the Russian Orthodox Church's support of separatism in the region by subsidizing Web sites that encourage successionist sentiments.”
successorship
  1. the state, condition, or status of being a successor
  2. Examples:
    1. “Employers must be aware of such consequences so that applications for successorship declarations can be avoided.”
      “It found that the Reconsideration Panel had deviated from well-established successorship principles.”
      “When the Old King died without any sons, a contest arose over the successorship to the chieftaincy.”
successfulness
  1. The state or condition of being successful.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Both employee and employer safety attitudes can determine the successfulness of a program.”
      “Your successfulness depends on how accurate you manage the negotiation process as a group.”
      “The 70 000 monthly connections of surgeons from all around the globe witness the successfulness of the project.”
successiveness
  1. The quality or state of being successive.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This is a successiveness that becomes real only when the succession is completed.”
      “This inadequacy is partly inherent in the fact that our terms and categories belong to discourse taken from this world of space, time, and successiveness.”
      “The long unfurling course of human history constitutes an obliterating successiveness.”
successivity
  1. The quality or fact of being successive.
successionism
  1. successionist beliefs
successour
  1. Obsolete form of successor.
successe
  1. Archaic form of success.
successary
  1. (obsolete) succession
successlessness
  1. Lack of success.
succeeding
successionists
  1. plural of successionist
successorships
  1. plural of successorship
successivities
  1. plural of successivity
successions
  1. plural of succession
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The lower parts of the two successions consist of very thick, compositionally immature, dominantly shallow marine siliciclastic sediments.”
      “Monarchs disputed successions and made political marriages in a relentless campaign for empire.”
      “Silurian and lower Devonian sedimentary successions are uncommon within the remnants of Gondwana.”
successours
  1. plural of successour
succeedings
successors
  1. plural of successor
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It is held in trust by her as sovereign for her successors and the nation and, indeed, she rarely refuses a request to lend items.”
      “Her government's standard of sleaze, corruption and lying were soon to pale into insignificance, when their successors got weaving.”
      “His successors on Chicago's south side have a chance to atone for those sins this week.”
succeeders
successes
  1. plural of success
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The truth is, when it comes to high school draft picks, there are many more successes than washouts.”
      “One is about a guy who had some spectacular successes and failures as a rainmaker.”
      “This collection uses primary sources to explore the history, successes, and failures of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction.”
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