anteriority
- noun
- /ænˌtɪəˈrɪəti/
- The historical study of cultures often focuses on their anteriority in relation to one another.
It's a sense of experience, subjectivity, anteriority, a point of view.
- It's a sense of experience, subjectivity, anteriority, a point of view.
Examples
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"Allegory and irony are," de Man writes, "linked by their common discovery of a truly temporal predicament," by an "unreachable anteriority," but there is a difference between them.
Academic text (2002) -
It's a sense of experience, subjectivity, anteriority, a point of view.
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In biology, the anteriority of certain traits can influence an organism's survival and adaptation.
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The book discusses the anteriority of social structures in shaping human interactions over time.
Synonyms
Happening before something else in time
The fact of happening before something else in time
Being earlier than another event in time
The right to come before others in time, order, or rank
Antonyms
How Early
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Anteriority comes from the Latin part ante- meaning 'before' and from anterior meaning 'in front'. So in time or order, anteriority means being earlier or coming before something else, which is why a document with anteriority is an earlier one.