ANTERIORITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Preceding in time

Synonyms:

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("anteriority" is a kind of...):

earliness (quality of coming early or earlier in time)

Derivation:

anterior (earlier in time)

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)