antidating

Backdating a document

Antidating is assigning an earlier date to something than its actual date—the opposite of postdating.

A check might be antidated to appear as though it was written last week.

Documents are sometimes antidated to meet deadlines retroactively or to backdate agreements: The contract was antidated to cover the work already completed.

chronology

backdating

Assigning earlier date falsely

predatingExisting before something else
antedateCome before chronologically
retrospectiveReviewing what came before

anachronistic · precede · antecedent · prior · earlier · beforehand · preliminary · precedence · timeline · anterior

archaeology

stratigraphy

Study of rock layers

excavationAct of unearthing
artifactsHuman-made historical objects
fossilsPreserved ancient organism traces

paleontology · radiocarbon · dendrochronology · thermoluminescence · provenance · antiquity · prehistoric

philology

paleography

Study of ancient handwriting

etymologyWord origin study
attestationFormal declaration confirming truth
citationMention of a source

lexicography · manuscript · corpus · documentation · archaic · obsolete · coinage · neologism

origins

genesis

Point of creation

beginningsInitial stages of something
inceptionFounding moment
sourcePoint of origin

roots · emergence · dawn · birth · foundation · precursor · forerunner · progenitor · earliest · primordial

Opposites

temporal direction

antidatingpostdating

Assigning a later date

backdating

temporal quality

antidatingmodern

Of recent times

recent · new · contemporary · current · up-to-date

Family

date, dated, update, dating, dates, outdated, updates, predate, postdate

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