posteriority

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

noun

1. the state or quality of being posterior.

Word History and Origins

Origin of posteriority¹

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

Example Sentences

More even than number, extension (which is continuous quantity), shows the characteristics of compositeness, and of posteriority.

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On the other hand, anteriority and posteriority exist in dimension as well as in numbers.

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If movement exist along with the priority and posteriority which relate thereto, why will we not have time without number?

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What is called priority is time that ends with the present; what is called posteriority, is the time that begins at the present.

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Before priority and posteriority, time, which did not yet exist, brooded within existence itself.

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