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ANTECEDENCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does antecedency mean?
• ANTECEDENCY (noun)
The noun ANTECEDENCY has 1 sense:
1. preceding in time
Familiarity information: ANTECEDENCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Preceding in time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
antecedence; antecedency; anteriority; precedence; precedency; priority
Hypernyms ("antecedency" is a kind of...):
earliness (quality of coming early or earlier in time)
Derivation:
antecede (be earlier in time; go back further)
antecedent (preceding in time or order)
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