anteriority

1. 1.

   the quality of being in front or (in lower animals) toward the head

   Antonymsposteriority

   Broaderposition
2. 2.

   preceding in time

   Synonymspriorityantecedenceantecedencyprecedenceprecedency

   Broaderearliness

Other forms of anteriority

plural

anteriorities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anteriority

What does anteriority mean?

anteriority means "the quality of being in front or (in lower animals) toward the head". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anteriority?

anteriority has 6 syllables: an-te-ri-o-ri-ty. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for anteriority?

Close synonyms include priority, antecedence, antecedency, precedence, precedency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of anteriority?

The recorded antonyms are posteriority.

Is anteriority a common word?

anteriority is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.