anteriority

From Middle French antériorité, from Late Latin anteriōritās, corresponding to anterior +‎ -ity.

• IPA^(key): /ænˌtɪəɹiˈɒɹɪti/
• Rhymes: -ɒɹɪti

anteriority (countable and uncountable, plural anteriorities)

1. 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.

• See Thesaurus:anteriority

• “anteriority”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.