adj.
   - chiefly Anatomy  further back in position; of or nearer the rear or hind end. The opposite of anterior.
 - Medicine  relating to or denoting presentation of a fetus in which the rear or caudal end is nearest the cervix and emerges first at birth.
 - formal coming after in time or order; later.
 
n.
 humorous a person's buttocks.
 
  Derivative
  
    - posteriority n.
  - posteriorly adv. (Anatomy ).
 
   
  Etymology
  C16 (as pl. n. ‘descendants’): from L., compar. of posterus ‘following’, from post ‘after’.