Synonyms of continuum

continuum

noun

as in spectrum

formal a range or series of things that are slightly different from each other and that exist between two different possibilities

His motives for volunteering lie somewhere on the continuum between charitable and self-serving.

a continuum of temperatures ranging from very cold to very hot

Synonyms & Similar Words

• spectrum
• scale
• gamut
• sequence
• range
• progression
• chain
• nexus
• line
• string
• gauntlet
• train
• chain reaction
• consecution
• gantlet
• flow
• cycle
• concatenation
• belt
• catenation
• circle
• river
• catena
• stream
• vicious cycle
• vicious circle
• succession
• file
• row
• queue

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of continuum

The United States will be majority non-white by 2050 and the Democrats recognize that within that new majority, there is the old ideological continuum of left and right. —Richard Stengel, TIME, 17 Aug. 2024

In other words, the films sometimes get lost in a continuum of influence and necessity to an informed discourse, rather than being recognized for their aesthetic or rhetorical merits. —Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024

The columns are decidedly Egyptian in style, asserting the foundational contributions of Black culture and forming a continuum between the vernacular contributions of both the ancient society and the artist’s own community. —Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 30 July 2024

So, similarly, the space around us looks like a three-dimensional continuum. —Adam Becker, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022