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Succeeding vs Consequent - What's the difference?

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Succeeding is a related term of consequent.


As adjectives the difference between succeeding and consequent

is that succeeding is following, next in order while consequent is acting]] or [[operate|operating in a consistent or logical manner; coherent.

As nouns the difference between succeeding and consequent

is that succeeding is success while consequent is the second term in various semantic or logical relationship where the first term is called the.

As a verb succeeding

is .

succeeding

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Following, next in order.
  • *
  • *:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
  • Antonyms

    * preceding

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • success
  • * 1722 , Nicholas Ling, ?John Bodenham, Wits Common-wealth (page 105)
  • It is good for a man in the midst of prosperity to fear a Ruin, and in the midst of adversity to hope for better succeedings .

    consequent

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
  • His retirement and consequent spare time enabled him to travel more.
  • Of or pertaining to consequences.
  • Coordinate terms

    * antecedent

    References

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (logic) The second half of a hypothetical proposition; Q, if the form of the proposition is "If P, then Q."
  • An event which follows another.
  • * Sir J. Davies
  • They were ill-governed, which is always a consequent of ill payment.
  • (math) The second term of a ratio, i.e. the term b'' in the ratio ''a:b , the other being the antecedent.
  • Holonyms

    * conditional * See

    Coordinate terms

    * antecedent