succeeding vs successive

succeeding

adj
  • Following, next in order. 

noun
  • success 

successive

adj
  • Coming one after the other in a series. 

  • Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which presupposes the completion of a secondary action as a premise for the primary action of the statement. 

  • Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary. 

How often have the words succeeding and successive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )