Word meaning "nearby in time"

I am looking for a word that has a similar meaning to "adjacent," except referring to time instead of space. For example, maybe I'm at a film festival and I'm watching three movies in a row, and I want to refer to the three "adjacent" films.

"Subsequent" gets close to the meaning I want, but that word focuses on one thing following another in time, whereas I would like a word meaning "next to," either before or after.


How about "consecutive"? Alternatively, "back-to-back".


temporal proximity

Events occurring in quick succession are said to be in temporal proximity of each other.

Anything else I can think of now seems to convey a meaning only in the semantic proximity of, not synonymous with, 'near-by in time'.


Previously-suggested consecutive ("following, in succession, without interruption") and back-to-back ("sequential or consecutive"; also see question #34175) are quite suitable, as would be sequential itself, but if you want slightly more figurative words, consider caravaned (traveling in procession) and chockablock (as completely or closely [together] as possible). Examples: "I watched three films chockablock." "The three films caravaned past as I sat there."

Note that while conterminous has one suitable sense ("Meeting end-to-end or at the ends", ie back-to-back) it also has an unsuitable sense ("Having the same scope, range of meaning, or extent in time", ie contemporaneous) so is unsuitable except as a confuser.


My dear sweet lullaby
You are close to me in space and time
And as your timeline passes me by
I sense your consciousness in proximity of time
So too I long for your affinity to my
space when your space invades mine.
And when your soul overfly
I long for your intimacy in space, spirit and time.
You are eventual to me.
And I am consequential to you.
Your events seem sequentially next to be
Where I tend to see your presence in lieu.

I am your immediate aftermath
and you are my spontaneous progression
I am your adjacent episode
and you are my incident chapter
I am your succeeding sentence
and you are my preceding occurrence.
Though I am your successive misadventure
you are my precedent advent.

Oh my sweet lullaby, how coincidentally congruent we are towards each other.