Anteriority

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Anteriority \An*te`ri*or"i*ty\, n. [LL. anterioritas.]
     The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in
     situation; priority. --Pope.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  anteriority
       n 1: the quality of being in front or (in lower animals) toward
            the head [ant: {posteriority}]
       2: preceding in time [syn: {priority}, {antecedence}, {antecedency},
           {precedence}, {precedency}] [ant: {posteriority}]