Noun: anteriority an,teer-ee'or-u-tee or an,teer-ee'ór-u-tee [N. Amer], an,teer-ee'ó-ri-tee [Brit]
- The quality of being in front or (in lower animals) toward the head
"The anteriority of the eyes in predators allows for better depth perception"
- Preceding in time
"The anteriority of the thunderclap to the lightning confused the observers";
- priority, antecedence, antecedency, precedence, precedency
Derived forms: anteriorities
Type of: earliness, position, spatial relation
Antonym: posteriority