Central and Earliest

Central

Central adjective - Coming before all others in importance.

Earliest and central are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Earliest" instead an adjective "Central".

Earliest

Earliest adjective - Coming before all others in time or order.

Central and earliest are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Central" instead an adjective "Earliest".

Both words in one sentence

  • Genetic Memory The central character in Piers Anthony's Orn is a large omnivorous flightless bird, which is less intelligent than a person but has Genetic Memory going back to the earliest vertebrates.
  • Some games make this one of (if not the) central mechanics (particularly the Roguelike subgenre, the earliest of which are the Ur-Example of this trope), with the main draw for playing the game being to find better and better loot (often with an Excuse Plot).
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