Synonyms for continuity
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.
Considerable continuity of attention is needed to read German philosophy.
Related words
- Word family
- continue continual continuousness
Forms
- Plural
- continuities → continuations, connections, successions, lines…
Example sentences
- connection Yanni and Skura developed an immediate connection.
- sequence He started reconstructing the sequence of events.
- succession They won the Japan Cup three years in succession.
- continuation Peace is the continuation of war with other means.
- flow Benedito watched the water flow through the canal.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| continuity | steady | |
| connection | falling | |
| sequence | steady | |
| succession | falling | |
| continuation | falling | |
| flow | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- line1, flow1
- 8 letters
- sequence2
- 10 letters
- connection3, succession3, perpetuity5
- 11 letters
- persistence3
- 12 letters
- continuation5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sequence2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- continuité
- Italiano
- continuità
- Català
- continuïtat