progression

Noun

Meaning

The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward.

Course; passage; lapse or process of time.

Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic.

A regular succession of tones or chords; the movement of the parts in harmony; the order of the modulations in a piece from key to key.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sequence progress advancement forward motion march series development growth expansion advance transition evolution succession procession maturation
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Antonyms

regress retrogression fall blight block decline
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Hypernyms

series move movement motion travel change of location

Hyponyms

march head career push headway leapfrog

Related terms

progress

Phrases with the word

omnibus progression doo-wop progression semantic progression dose progression harmonical progression challenging progression

Examples

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. Margaret Fuller

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. Stanley Kubrick

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. William Blake

why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you. F. Scott Fitzgerald

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class. Harriet Martineau

The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes. James Frazer

Close letter words and terms

progresser progressible progressing on progressional progressionary progressionist