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

2. preceding in time

  Familiarity information: ANTERIORITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTERIORITY (noun)

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)