anteriority

  • 71top priority — Synonyms and related words: antecedence, antecedency, anteposition, anteriority, dominion, front position, precedence, precedency, preceding, precession, precursor, preference, prefixation, prelude, priority, prothesis, superiority, the lead,… …

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  • 72urgency — Synonyms and related words: antecedence, antecedency, anteposition, anteriority, blandishment, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, case of need, clutch, coaxing, compulsion, constraint, crisis, crunch, demandingness, dire necessity, dominion,… …

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  • 73window dressing — Synonyms and related words: acting, adjunct, adornment, affectation, anteriority, appearance, arrangement, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing, bold front, brave face, brave front, cheating, color, color patterns, coloring, deception, decor,… …

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  • 74foreground — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. proscenium, front. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. front, fore, forefront, prominence, immediate prospect, nearer view, anteriority, proximity, propinquity, nearness, contiguity, adjacency, purview, immediate …

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  • 75precedence — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Coming before Nouns 1. precedence, coming before; superiority, importance, preference; priority, preexistence; antecedence, precedency, antecedency, anteposition, anteriority, pecking order. 2.… …

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  • 76priority — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Precedence in time Nouns 1. priority, antecedence, anteriority, primogeniture; preexistence; precession; precursor, forerunner; past; premises. See precedence, ancestry, beginning. 2. precursor,… …

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  • 77Priority — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Priority >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 priority priority antecedence anteriority precedence pre existence Sgm: N 1 precession precession &c. 280 Sgm: N 1 precursor precursor &c. 64 Sgm: N 1 …

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  • 78anterior — (adj.) 1610s, Latin, lit. former, comparative of ante before (see ANTE (Cf. ante)). Related: Anteriority …

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  • 79anterior — adjective 1》 chiefly Anatomy & Biology nearer the front, especially in the front of the body or nearer to the head. The opposite of posterior.     ↘Botany situated further away from the main stem. 2》 (anterior to) formal prior to. 3》 Phonetics… …

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  • 80antecedence — n. Priority (in time), anteriority, precedence …

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