anteriority

English

Etymology

From Middle French antériorité, from Late Latin anterioritas, corresponding to anterior +‎ -ity.

Noun

anteriority (countable and uncountable, plural anteriorities)

1. The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority.
   • 2002, Thomas R. West, Signs of Struggle, page 23:

     It is important to realize that pregivenness or prefixing is a kind of anteriority that does its work in the present; subjects and meanings in part emerge in enuciative co-constitutive moments.

Synonyms

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Translations

state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation

• Catalan: anterioritat f, prioritat f
• Galician: anterioridade (gl) f
• Hungarian: előidejűség (hu)
• Irish: réamhtheacht f
• Portuguese: anterioridade (pt) f
• Spanish: anterioridad (es) f

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “anteriority”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)