Word.ws English Dictionary

surcession

surcession noun: a complete end or halt; a surcease.

Noun

surcession (plural surcessions)

  1. A complete end or halt; a surcease.
    • There are many family and hereditary diseases, such as amaurotic family idiocy, congenital spastic diplegia, progressive muscular dystrophy, for whose prevention no other means have been suggested save the radical measure of surcession of procreation.1900, Joseph Collins, The Treatment of diseases of the nervous system, page 28
    • In this condition asperity contact virtually ceases, the sensing gauge face indicating surcession of wear.1965, College of Aeronautics (Cranfield, England), CoA Report Aero - Issue 184, page 3

Forms of surcession

pluralsurcessions

Questions about surcession

What does surcession mean?
Surcession means a complete end or halt; a surcease.
What part of speech is surcession?
Surcession is a noun.
What is the plural of surcession?
The plural of surcession is surcessions.

Words near surcession in the dictionary

  1. surceasance
  2. surcease
  3. surceased
  4. surceases
  5. surceasing
  6. surcession
  7. surcessions
  8. surcharge
  9. surchargeable
  10. surcharged
  11. surchargement

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: surcession (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “surcession.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/surcession. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.