continuation

continuation, continuance, continuity are often confused, especially when meaning the quality, the act, or the state of continuing or of being continued or an instance revealing such a quality, action, or state.

Continuation suggests prolongation or resumption

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the continuation of a line

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it's the continuation of a philosophic plan— Meredith

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the boy from a good classical school finds that his college Latin, Greek, and mathematics are the natural continuation of what he has already acquired— Grandgent

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Continuance implies duration, perseverance, or stay

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eleven years' continuance— Shak.

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patient continuance in well doing— Rom 2:1

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our continuance in the city depends on our boy's health

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the idleness and vice of many years continuance— Austen

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Continuity stresses uninterrupted or unbroken connection, sequence, or extent

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the continuity of a series

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continuity of attention

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the entire breach of continuity in your history made by the Revolution— Arnold

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space and time are thus vehicles of continuity by which the world's parts hang together— James

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In the technical language of those engaged in making motion pictures or in radio and television broadcasting, continuity denotes material written in advance (as the scenario of a motion picture or the lines to be spoken in a radio broadcast) as provision for perfection in sequence and in timing of the performance.

Analogous words: extending or extension, prolonging or prolongation, protracting or protraction (see corresponding verbs at EXTEND)

Antonyms: cessation