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futurity
[ fyoo-toor-i-tee, -tyoor-, -choor-, -chur- ]
noun
- future time:
Such discussion is better left to futurity.
- future generations; posterity:
What will futurity say about this?
- the afterlife:
the promise of eternal rest in futurity.
We are concerned about the futurity of unsubsidized opera.
His tactfulness remains more of a futurity than a reality.
- the quality of being future:
the futurity of the end of the world.
- 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.
futurity
/ fjuːˈtjʊərɪtɪ /
Example Sentences
Calm and contented in the consciousness of having done my duty, I look forward to futurity with perfect peace of mind.
He had a form of ideal beauty, grace, and vigor, inspired by unerring wisdom and insight into futurity.
I would gladly have risked futurity to have looked elsewhere—I could not.
Our plans of futurity, our purposes of gain, or our resolves of usefulness, may be ended in one short hour.
Drawing of lots was frequently resorted to by the Romans wishing to pry into futurity.
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