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Noun: anteriority  an,teer-ee'or-u-tee or an,teer-ee'ór-u-tee [N. Amer], an,teer-ee'ó-ri-tee [Brit]
  1. The quality of being in front or (in lower animals) toward the head
     
  2. Preceding in time
    - priority, antecedence, antecedency, precedence, precedency

Derived forms: anteriorities

Type of: earliness, position, spatial relation

Antonym: posteriority