Secession vs. Succession — What's the Difference?

Secession is the withdrawal of a group from a larger entity, especially a political entity, but also from any organization, union or military alliance. Some of the most famous and significant secessions have been: the former Soviet republics leaving the Soviet Union, Ireland leaving the United Kingdom, and Algeria leaving France.

The act or process of following in order or sequence.

The act of seceding.

A group of people or things arranged or following in order; a sequence

Often Secession The withdrawal of 11 Southern states from the Union in 1860-1861, precipitating the US Civil War.

The sequence in which one person after another succeeds to a title, throne, or position.

The act of seceding.

The right of a person or a line of persons to so succeed.

The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal.

The act or process of succeeding to the rights or duties of another.

The withdrawal of a State from the national Union.

The act or process of becoming entitled as a legal beneficiary to the property of a deceased person.

An Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s

(Ecology) The gradual replacement of one type of ecological community by another in the same area, involving a series of orderly changes, especially in the dominant vegetation, and often resulting in the establishment of a climax community.

The withdrawal of eleven Southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War

An act of following in sequence.

Formal separation from an alliance or federation

A sequence of things in order.

A passing of royal powers.

A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.

A race or series of descendants.

(agriculture) Rotation, as of crops.

A right to take possession.

(historical) In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.

The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.

The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters.

A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology.

An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.

The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne.

The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order.

The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir.

A following of one thing after another in time;

A group of people or things arranged or following in order;

The action of following in order;

(ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established

Acquisition of property by descent or by will