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ANTERIORITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does anteriority mean?
• ANTERIORITY (noun)
The noun ANTERIORITY has 2 senses:
1. the quality of being in front or (in lower animals) toward the head
Familiarity information: ANTERIORITY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being in front or (in lower animals) toward the head
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("anteriority" is a kind of...):
position; spatial relation (the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated)
Antonym:
posteriority (the quality of being toward the back or toward the rear end)
Derivation:
anterior (of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Preceding in time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
antecedence; antecedency; anteriority; precedence; precedency; priority
Hypernyms ("anteriority" is a kind of...):
earliness (quality of coming early or earlier in time)
Derivation:
anterior (earlier in time)
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