What is another word for progressions?

Pronunciation: [pɹəɡɹˈɛʃənz] (IPA)

Progressions are synonymous with sequences, successions, advancements, and developments. They refer to the process of moving forward or improving in a certain direction. Progressions can involve any type of activity or endeavor, from personal growth to professional advancement to scientific discoveries. The term can also describe musical or mathematical concepts, where it refers to the arrangement of different elements in a particular order. Whether we are talking about career advancements or artistic achievements, progressions always imply change and movement, indicating that something is moving forward or improving over time. As such, synonyms for progressions suggest different aspects of advancement, each with their own unique connotations that reflect the context in which they are used.

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What are the hypernyms for Progressions?

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Usage examples for Progressions

The painter has had to transcribe what he sees, the musician to capture the delicate intervals that have thrilled his inner ear-but if the painter's thought has been absorbed in the forms that he is depicting, if the musician has lost himself among the airy harmonies, the sweet progressions, these things must have drawn them away from life, and secluded them in a paradise of emotion; but with me it has been different; for it is life itself that has palpitated in my pages, my very heart's blood has been driven by eager pulsations through sentence and phrase; and the book is thus a part of myself in a way in which no picture and no melody can be.
"The Silent Isle"
Arthur Christopher Benson
Brahms was a fraud who patched up a compound of Beethoven and Schumann, put in a lot of mystifying harmonic progressions, and thought he was new.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
The principles of development in which it centres were conceived by Hegel himself to manifest themselves most clearly in the progressions of nature and history.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry

Famous quotes with Progressions

  • I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.
    Joanna Newsom
  • But we do not normally mistake progressions of weakness, the loss of the simple capacity to escape, for the onset of love.
    Renata Adler

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