different between succeeding vs success

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?k?si?d??/
• Rhymes: -i?d??
• Hyphenation: suc?ceed?ing

Adjective

succeeding (not comparable)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• next; see also Thesaurus:subsequent

Antonyms

• preceding; see also Thesaurus:former

Translations

Verb

succeeding

1. present participle of succeed

Noun

succeeding (plural succeedings)

1. 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.

English

Alternative forms

• successe (archaic)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin successus, from succ?d? (“succeed”), from sub- (“next to”) + c?d? (“go, move”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /s?k?s?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

success (countable and uncountable, plural successes)

1. The achievement of one's aim or goal. [from 16th c.]

   His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success.

   Antonym: failure

2. (business) Financial profitability.

   Don't let success go to your head.

3. One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.

   Scholastically, he was a success.

   The new range of toys has been a resounding success.

4. The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.

   She is country music's most recent success.

5. (obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result. [16th-18th c.]
   • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:

     I suppose them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a little alter'd and mov'd inwardly in their mindes: Some with doubt of what will be the successe, others with fear of what will be the censure; some with hope, others with confidence of what they have to speake.

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Further reading

• success in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• success in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.