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anteriority

9.9

Being earlier in time or order than something else

noun
/ænˌtɪəˈrɪəti/

: anterioridad

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.

Examples

"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.

StarTalk
In biology, the anteriority of certain traits can influence an organism's survival and adaptation.
The book discusses the anteriority of social structures in shaping human interactions over time.

Synonyms

precedence

vsanteriority

8 5.7

Happening before something else in time

also covers position and order beyond simple temporal sequence

precedency

vsanteriority

1 8.5

The right to come before others in time, order, or rank

focuses on neutral earlier status rather than higher importance or rank

antecedency

vsanteriority

Formal

1 9.9

Being earlier than another event in time

also covers position and order beyond just time

antecedence

vsanteriority

Formal

1 8.6

The fact of happening before something else in time

is broader, covering position and order as well as priority

Antonyms

posteriority

1 9.9

Happening later in time

How Early

anteriority

9.9

lateness

10 1.6

Surface Forms

anteriority singular

anteriorities plural

Morphology

anteriority = anterior (transparent) = anterior + ity

The formation is the same productive nominalization as sense 1, yielding 'the state or quality of being earlier or preceding'.

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.