Home › Words › P › precursorshipprecursorshipprecursorship means the position or condition of a precursor.EtymologyFrom precursor + -ship.nounThe position or condition of a precursor.e.g.“the treatment of the masses of mountain in the Daphne and Leucippus , Golden Bough , and Modern Italy , is wholly without precursorship” — 1843–1860, John Ruskin, Modern Painters, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.forerunnership 75% match — The state or condition of a forerunner. vs precursorship →precursory 73% match — Being or relating to a precursor; relating to events that will follow. vs precursorship →precursor 73% match — That which precurses: a forerunner, predecessor, or indicator of approaching events. vs precursorship →precessor 71% match — A predecessor; one who came before. vs precursorship →predecessory 71% match — Being or pertaining to a predecessor. vs precursorship →precursive 69% match — Preceding; introductory; precursory. vs precursorship →antecursor 69% match — A forerunner; a precursor. vs precursorship →preceder 69% match — One who precedes. vs precursorship →