Meaning | Quality of coming early or earlier in time. |
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Narrower | forwardness | An advanced stage |
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priority, antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency | preceding in time |
Broader | timing | The time when something happens |
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Opposite | lateness | Quality of coming late or later in time |
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Spanish | precocidad |
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Adjectives | early | at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time |
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early | of an early stage in the development of a language or literature |
early | being or occurring at an early stage / stage of development |