Antecedence

Quick meaning: Antecedence is a noun meaning The relationship of preceding something in time or order.

Meaning

The relationship of preceding something in time or order.

More Meanings

1. That which precedes something or someone (e.g. prior events, origin, ancestry).
2. The length of time by which one event or time period precedes another.
3. (grammar) The relationship between a pronoun and its antecedent.
4. (geology) A geologic process that explains how and why antecedent rivers can cut through mountain systems instead of going around them.
5. (astronomy, obsolete) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west.

Example Sentences

The literature on the French Revolution and its antecedence is vast.

[…] we are concerned with those relations of antecedence or sequence which it is impossible to think of as other than we know them.

He had at no time been sympathetic to Tyler’s Jewish aspirations. He didn’t need to be married to a Jew. He was Jew enough — at least in his antecedence — for both of them.

The child she had conceived in terror, had carried in shame, and had borne in pain had been given the name of that paradisal spring which could, if anything could, wash antecedence into non-existence and torment into calm.

Word Forms

• antecedences

Synonyms for antecedence

Depending on context, synonyms include antecedency, antecession, precedence, priority, anteriority, retrogradation.

Antonyms for antecedence

Common opposites include subsequence, posteriority, posteriorness, succession, subsequentness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include antecedency, anteriority, precedence, priority, antecedent, antecessor.

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