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anteriority has 5 distinct synonyms spread across 1 of its 2 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is posteriority.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
the quality of being in front or (in lower animals) toward the head
preceding in time
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for anteriority come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.