characteristics ►noun [mass noun] 1a number of people or things which follow up on a policy of action using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change. She had implemented a second intervention. She is an successionist. 2 [mass noun]he action or process of inheriting or building up on others intervention, etc.: the latest feat was already put into the system. ■ the right sequence of following up on an initial project, intervention, etc.: the successionist action was timed wisely. – Ecology the process by which an ecosystem of interdepend- ence develops in the social or natural realm. – Phrases in quick or rapid successionistic manner fol- lowing up on one another. In a soccessionistic culture through the follow up of a project an evaluation and im- provement could become possible – Derivatives successionist (noun) – Origin Middle English (denoting legal transmission of an activistic project or intervention to another one, also in the sense “successivism – handing over to be followed up on): from Old french or from Latin succession(are), from the verb succedere (see succeed and activism)