posteriority

1. 1.

   the quality of being toward the back or toward the rear end

   Antonymsanteriority

   Broaderposition

   quadruped

2. 2.

   following in time

   Synonymssubsequentnesssubsequence

   Antonymspriority

   Broaderlateness

Other forms of posteriority

plural

posteriorities·

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 posteriority

What does posteriority mean?

posteriority means "the quality of being toward the back or toward the rear end". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in posteriority?

posteriority has 6 syllables: po-ste-ri-o-ri-ty. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for posteriority?

Close synonyms include subsequentness, subsequence. 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 posteriority?

The recorded antonyms are anteriority, priority.

Is posteriority a common word?

posteriority is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.