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Gradually vs Successively - What's the difference?

gradually | successively |

As adverbs the difference between gradually and successively

is that gradually is in a gradual manner; making slow progress; slowly while successively is in a serial or successive manner; one following another.

gradually

English

Adverb

(-)
  • In a gradual manner; making slow progress; slowly.
  • (obsolete) by degrees
    • Human reason doth not only gradually , but specifically, differ from the fantastic reason of brutes. — Grew.

    successively

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In a serial or successive manner; one following another.
    • December 20, 1787' ''My last to you was of Oct. 8 by the Count de Moustier. Yours of July 18. Sep. 6. & Oct. 24. have been '''successively received, yesterday, the day before & three or four days before that. — Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison.