Seniority \Sen*ior"i*ty\, n.
The quality or state of being senior.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
seniority
n 1: higher rank than that of others especially by reason of
longer service [syn: senior status, higher status, higher
rank]
2: the property of being long-lived [syn: longevity]
WordNet (r) 2.0
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "seniority":
aboriginality, accomplishment, age, ancien regime, ancientness,
antiquity, ascendancy, atavism, authority, cobwebs of antiquity,
consequence, deanship, dust of ages, eld, elderliness, eldership,
eminence, excellence, favor, great age, greatness, hoary age,
hoary eld, importance, incomparability, influence, influentialness,
inimitability, inveteracy, lead, majority, moment, old age,
old order, old style, oldness, one-upmanship, precedence,
predominance, predomination, preeminence, preponderance,
prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, pressure, prestige,
primitiveness, primogeniture, primordialism, primordiality,
priority, privilege, prominence, rank, right-of-way, senility,
skill, stature, success, superiority, transcendence, transcendency,
venerableness, virtuosity, weight, weightiness
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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