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Successively vs Consecutive - What's the difference?

successively | consecutive |

As an adverb successively

is in a serial or successive manner; one following another.

As an adjective consecutive is

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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.

    consecutive

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • following, in succession, without interruption
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 9 , author=Jonathan Wilson , title=Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=He follows Frédi Kanouté, who achieved the feat in 2006 and 2007 for Sevilla, in scoring in consecutive Uefa Cup/Europa League finals.}}
  • Having some logical sequence

    • Antonyms

    * nonconsecutive * simultaneously

    Derived terms

    * consecutively * consecutiveness