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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

aftertime, afteryears, by-and-by, coming after, consecution, consecutiveness, continuation, continuity, course ahead, crystal ball, descent, determinism, distant future, eventuality, expectation, extension, following, foresight, forward look, future, future tense, futurism, futurity, hereafter, immediate future, immediate prospect, imminence, line, lineage, logical sequence, near future, offing, order, order of succession, outlook, postposition, prediction, probability, procession, progression, project, prolongation, prophecy, prospect, rotation, sequence, series, subjunction, succession, successiveness, suffixation, the future, the morrow, the sweet by-and-by, time ahead, time just ahead, time to come, tomorrow

Dictionary Results for posteriority:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

posteriority
    n 1: the quality of being toward the back or toward the rear end
         [ant: anteriority]
    2: following in time [syn: posteriority, subsequentness,
       subsequence] [ant: antecedence, antecedency,
       anteriority, precedence, precedency, priority]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Posteriority \Pos*te`ri*or"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F.
   post['e]riorit['e].]
   The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of
   time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.
   [1913 Webster]

3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

POSTERIORITY, rights. Being or, coming after. It is a word of comparison, 
the correlative of which is priority; as, when a man holds lands from two 
landlords, he holds from his ancient landlord by priority and from the other 
by posteriority. 2 Inst. 392. 
     2. These terms, priority and posteriority, are also used in cases of 
liens the first are prior liens, and are to be paid in the first place; the 
last are posterior liens, and are not entitled to payment until the former 
have been satisfied.

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