noun
1. the quality of being in front or (in lower animals) toward the head
• Ant: ↑posteriority
• Derivationally related forms: ↑anterior
• Hypernyms: ↑position, ↑spatial relation
2. preceding in time
• Syn: ↑priority, ↑antecedence, ↑antecedency, ↑precedence, ↑precedency
• Ant: ↑posteriority (for: ↑priority)
• Derivationally related forms:
↑precede (for: ↑precedency), ↑precedent (for: ↑precedence), ↑precede (for: ↑precedence), ↑anterior, ↑antecedent (for: ↑antecedency), ↑antecede (for: ↑antecedency), ↑antecedent (for: ↑antecedence), ↑antecede (for: ↑antecedence), ↑prior (for: ↑priority), ↑prioritize (for: ↑priority)
• Hypernyms: ↑earliness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.