Concatenation
‘The action of linking things together in a series, or the condition of being linked in such a way.'  Oxford Dictionary
“...but one is apt, in these abstracted considerations, to lose the concatenation of ideas, as Mr Locke says:--in short, the truth is--in short, I scarce know what it is...”

From The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, Henry Fielding
Donated by Andrew Bick