Success  

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Illustration: Pollice Verso by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1872

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Success may mean:

• a level of social status
• achievement of an objective/goal
• the opposite of failure
• Succès de scandale

Compare and contrast

• Failure
• Frustration

See also

• Acclaim
• Fame
• Hero
• Greatness
• Great Man theory
• Bestseller
• Commercialism and profitability
• Popularity
• Selling out
• Starving artist
• Beautiful loser

Etymology

From Latin succēdō, I climb, mount or ascend; I advance; I follow; I succeed in; I enter.

Namesakes

• "Adventures in Success"