anteriority
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French antériorité, from Late Latin anteriōritās, corresponding to anterior + -ity.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
anteriority (countable and uncountable, plural anteriorities)
- The state of being previous or preceding in time or in situation.
- 2002, Thomas R. West, Signs of Struggle, page 23:
- It is important to realize that pregivenness or prefixing is a kind of anteriority that does its work in the present; subjects and meanings in part emerge in enuciative co-constitutive moments.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation
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References[edit]
- “anteriority”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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