Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or state of being consecutive, or of following in regular order.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being consecutive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
consecutive .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word consecutiveness.
Examples
-
Memory provides the soul with a kind of consecutiveness, which resembles [imite] reason, but which is to be distinguished from it.
The Monadology 2004
-
And the third — as in this sentence — is the kind of usage we discussed last time, where a conjunction gives a false sense of chatty consecutiveness between the first sentence and the second.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » The dreaded Frankenstein manuscript, part IX: and? And? And? 2010
-
Like so many aspiring novelists, our Noël favors an anecdotal-style narrative voice, one that echoes the consecutiveness of everyday speech.
-
Like so many aspiring novelists, our Noël favors an anecdotal-style narrative voice, one that echoes the consecutiveness of everyday speech.
-
As anyone who has ever been trapped in a conversation with a non-stop talker can tell you, beginning sentences with conjunctions gives an impression of consecutiveness of logic or storyline.
-
And the third — as in this sentence — is the kind of usage we discussed last time, where a conjunction gives a false sense of chatty consecutiveness between the first sentence and the second.
-
And the third — as in this sentence — is the kind of usage we discussed yesterday, where a conjunction gives a false sense of chatty consecutiveness between the first sentence and the second.
-
And the third — as in this sentence — is the kind of usage we discussed yesterday, where a conjunction gives a false sense of chatty consecutiveness between the first sentence and the second.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » The dreaded Frankenstein manuscript, part IX: and? And? And? 2010
-
As anyone who has ever been trapped in a conversation with a non-stop talker can tell you, beginning sentences with conjunctions gives an impression of consecutiveness of logic or storyline.
-
As anyone who has ever been trapped in a conversation with a non-stop talker can tell you, beginning sentences in this way gives an impression of consecutiveness of logic or storyline.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.