Posteriority

4 definitions found

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

  Posteriority \Pos*te`ri*or"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F.
     post['e]riorit['e].]
     The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of
     time, or of an event; -- opposed to {priority}.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  posteriority
       n 1: the quality of being toward the back or toward the rear end
            [ant: {anteriority}]
       2: following in time [syn: {subsequentness}, {subsequence}]
          [ant: {priority}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "posteriority":
     aftertime, afteryears, by-and-by, coming after, consecution,
     consecutiveness, continuation, continuity, course ahead,
     crystal ball, descent, determinism, distant future, eventuality,
     expectation, extension, following, foresight, forward look, future,
     future tense, futurism, futurity, hereafter, immediate future,
     immediate prospect, imminence, line, lineage, logical sequence,
     near future, offing, order, order of succession, outlook,
     postposition, prediction, probability, procession, progression,
     project, prolongation, prophecy, prospect, rotation, sequence,
     series, subjunction, succession, successiveness, suffixation,
     the future, the morrow, the sweet by-and-by, time ahead,
     time just ahead, time to come, tomorrow
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  POSTERIORITY, rights. Being or, coming after. It is a word of comparison, 
  the correlative of which is priority; as, when a man holds lands from two 
  landlords, he holds from his ancient landlord by priority and from the other 
  by posteriority. 2 Inst. 392. 
       2. These terms, priority and posteriority, are also used in cases of 
  liens the first are prior liens, and are to be paid in the first place; the 
  last are posterior liens, and are not entitled to payment until the former 
  have been satisfied.