futurity

[ fyoo-toor-i-tee, -tyoor-, -choor-, -chur- ]
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noun,plural fu·tu·ri·ties.
  1. future time: Such discussion is better left to futurity.

  2. future generations; posterity: What will futurity say about this?

  1. the afterlife: the promise of eternal rest in futurity.

  2. a future state or condition; a future event, possibility, or prospect: We are concerned about the futurity of unsubsidized opera. His tactfulness remains more of a futurity than a reality.

  3. the quality of being future: the futurity of the end of the world.

  4. Also called futurity race .Horse Racing. a race, usually for two-year-olds, in which the entrants are selected long before the race is run, sometimes before the birth of the foal.

Origin of futurity

1
First recorded in 1595–1605; future + -ity

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How to use futurity in a sentence

  • And further, why didst thou deliver oracles to him concerning futurities?

    The Antiquities of the Jews | Flavius Josephus
  • But since that is not so it would follow, according to him, that contingent futurities have no determinate truth.

    Theodicy | G. W. Leibniz
  • That is why contingent futurities, foreseen both in themselves and through their reasons, remain contingent.

    Theodicy | G. W. Leibniz
  • He applied them (amongst other ways) to our belief in the uniform futurities of Nature.

  • It was richly in unison with his own nature, and I believe he had a ravishing vision of its magnificent futurities.

    On the Stairs | Henry B. Fuller

British Dictionary definitions for futurity

futurity

/ (fjuːˈtjʊərɪtɪ) /


nounplural -ties
  1. a less common word for future

  2. the quality of being in the future

  1. a future event

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