futurity
Americannoun
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futurities
plural
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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
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In doing so, Autje and Neitje firmly establish themselves on the fulcrum of a new futurity — unfamiliar, uncertain, and irresistible.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2023
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 ● Nov. 25, 2022
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 ● Jul. 6, 2021
Pitbull’s full-brother, a gelding named Lebowski, will also be in the futurity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2019
For a moment, we gaped at the imminent futurity of it.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
At events called futurities, the bulls could now compete directly against one another, carrying dummy cowboys on their backs while judges rated their bucking ability.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2014
If all went well, the bull would get sent to thirty-five or forty rodeos a year, earning five to ten thousand in fees and up to a hundred thousand in futurities and other winnings.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2014
I always liked that pious Arab qualification when speaking of futurities.
From Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
We must therefore not imagine with some Schoolmen, whose ideas tend towards the chimerical, that free contingent futurities have the privilege of exemption from this general rule of the nature of things.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard
"Concerning an investment in futurities I'm making," he continued.
From Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine
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