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Superiority vs Precedency - What's the difference?

superiority | precedency |

As nouns the difference between superiority and precedency

is that superiority is the state of being superior while precedency is precedence; superiority.

superiority

English

Alternative forms

* superiourity (obsolete)

Noun

(superiorities)
  • the state of being superior
    • Many colleges want to achieve football superiority.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Chelsea will point to that victory margin as confirmation of their superiority - but Spurs will complain their hopes of turning the game around were damaged fatally by Atkinson's decision.}}

    Antonyms

    * inferiority

    precedency

    English

    Noun

    (precedencies)
  • Precedence; superiority.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:Archimedes master of this Science, and who in truth and certaintie assumeth unto himselfe a precedencie above all others, saith, the Sunne is a God of enflamed yron.
  • (obsolete) The fact of serving as a precedent.