futurity
Americannoun
plural
futurities-
future time.
Such discussion is better left to futurity.
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future generations; posterity.
What will futurity say about this?
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the afterlife.
the promise of eternal rest in futurity.
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a future state or condition; a future event, possibility, or prospect: His tactfulness remains more of a futurity than a reality.
We are concerned about the futurity of unsubsidized opera.
His tactfulness remains more of a futurity than a reality.
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the quality of being future.
the futurity of the end of the world.
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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.
noun
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a less common word for future
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the quality of being in the future
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a future event
Etymology
Origin of futurity
Example Sentences
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Pierre: “You did pretty good. Won some derbies and futurities. She did really good.”
From Washington Post
I have been thinking about how to situate this cyborg that I’m building outside of the conventions of a futurity that’s very white, that’s very dependent on technology that’s supposed to enhance a human body.
From Los Angeles Times
In my own scholarship and writing, I’m building up these ideas in ways that feed into conversations within Black feminism, Black studies, Afrofuturism, and debates about our shared history and futurity.
From Seattle Times
“I love her ability to pivot from conversations around Black futurity that center on the fantastic and spectacular,” Onli added, “and remind us that our future may not look drastically different from our present.”
From New York Times
Presented in tense, terse fragments of scenes, these meetings bring to mind an idea of futurity posed by the Black feminist scholar Tina Campt: “a performance of a future that hasn’t happened but must.”
From New York Times
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