anteriority

Definitions of anteriority
  1. noun
    preceding in time
    synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, precedence, precedency, priority
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    type of:
    earliness
    quality of coming early or earlier in time
  2. noun
    the quality of being in front or (in lower animals) toward the head
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    antonyms:
    posteriority
    the quality of being toward the back or toward the rear end
    type of:
    position, spatial relation
    the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
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