posteriority

[ po-steer-ee-awr-i-tee, -or-, poh- ]

noun
  1. the state or quality of being posterior.

Origin of posteriority

1
1350–1400; Middle English pos-teriorite<Medieval Latin posteriōritās.See posterior, -ity

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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)