Definition of Antecedency. Meaning of Antecedency. Synonyms of Antecedency

- Look up antecedent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Antecedent may refer to: Antecedent (behavioral psychology), the stimulus that occurs before a trained...
- Denying the antecedent (also known as inverse error or fallacy of the inverse) is a formal fallacy of inferring the inverse from an original statement...
- An antecedent is the first half of a hypothetical proposition, whenever the if-clause precedes the then-clause. In some contexts the antecedent is called...
- In statistics and social sciences, an antecedent variable is a variable that cannot help to explain the apparent relationship (or part of the relationship)...
- In grammar, an antecedent is one or more words that establish the meaning of a pronoun or other pro-form. For example, in the sentence "John arrived late...
- In English grammar, a pronoun has a possessive antecedent if its antecedent (the noun that it refers to) appears in the possessive case; for example, in...
- Antecedents are the life history and previous convictions of a defendant in a criminal case. They are colloquially known as "previous convictions" (or...
- An antecedent stream is a stream that maintains its original course and pattern despite the changes in underlying rock topography. A stream with a dendritic...
- which models the process of genetic drift in reverse time. The antonym of antecedent is descendant. An adoption detective is any licensed or unlicensed person...
- common in abstract, theoretical or strategic discourse. Examples (with the antecedent in boldface and the referring pronoun in italics) include "readers of...