continuum
n. countable C1 Advanced US //kənˈtɪnjuəm// UK //kəntˈɪnjuːəm// con·tin·u·um
n. a continuous sequence where the parts are so close together that you cannot tell where one ends and the next begins.
n. a continuous series or range in which adjacent elements are not perceptibly different from each other, despite an overall difference between the extremes.
Pain exists on a continuum from mild to severe.
The political spectrum is a continuum rather than a set of fixed categories.
Scholars argue that gender identity is a continuum, challenging the traditional binary view that limits human experience to just two distinct options.
Borrowed from Latin continuum, neuter form of continuus, from contineō (“contain, enclose”).