noun. Precedence.

noun. The act of going before, or state of being before, in time, place, rank, or logical order; precedence.

noun. In astronomy, an apparent motion of a planet from east to west, or contrary to the order of the signs of the zodiac.

noun. The act or state of going before in time; precedence.

noun. An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.

noun. The act of preceding in time or order.

noun. An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.

noun. preceding in time

""[W] hereas there is no other felicity of beasts but the enjoying of their quotidian food, ease, and lusts, as having little or no foresight ... man observes how one event has been produced by another, and remembers in them antecedence and consequence," declared Hobbes."

earliness  

bed-wetting  bluffer  complainer  consecution  costiveness  

precedence  previousness  retrogradation