Origin: Latin suffix -ive
Successive has 2 different meanings across 1 category:
in regular succession without gaps
"serial concerts"
Coming one after the other in a series.
"The team faced three successive losses before finally winning their next game."
In plain English: Successive means things happening one right after another without any breaks in between.
"The team played three successive games without losing any points."
The word comes from the Latin succedere, which originally meant "to sit or come after." It entered English to describe things that follow one another in a sequence.