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Continuously vs Simultaneously - What's the difference?

continuously | simultaneously |

As adverbs the difference between continuously and simultaneously

is that continuously is without pause while simultaneously is occurring at the same time.

continuously

English

Adverb

(-)
  • Without pause.
    • The river continuously flows to the sea, it will never pause to let us cross on dry land.

    simultaneously

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Occurring at the same time.
  • *
    • The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli , passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}

    Related terms

    * simultaneity