posteriority
[ po-steer-ee-awr-i-tee, -or-, poh- ]
noun
the state or quality of being posterior.
Origin of posteriority
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How to use posteriority in a sentence
More even than number, extension (which is continuous quantity), shows the characteristics of compositeness, and of posteriority.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 | Plotinos (Plotinus)On the other hand, anteriority and posteriority exist in dimension as well as in numbers.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 | Plotinos (Plotinus)If movement exist along with the priority and posteriority which relate thereto, why will we not have time without number?
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 | Plotinos (Plotinus)What is called priority is time that ends with the present; what is called posteriority, is the time that begins at the present.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 | Plotinos (Plotinus)Before priority and posteriority, time, which did not yet exist, brooded within existence itself.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 | Plotinos (Plotinus)
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