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futurity

American  
[fyoo-toor-i-tee, -tyoor-, -choor-, -chur-] / fyuˈtʊər ɪ ti, -ˈtyʊər-, -ˈtʃʊər-, -ˈtʃɜr- /

noun

plural

futurities

  1. future time.

    Such discussion is better left to futurity.

  2. future generations; posterity.

    What will futurity say about this?

  3. the afterlife.

    the promise of eternal rest in futurity.

  4. 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.

  5. the quality of being future.

    the futurity of the end of the world.

  6. 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 British  
/ fjuːˈtjʊərɪtɪ /

noun

  1. a less common word for future

  2. the quality of being in the future

  3. a future event

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Etymology

Origin of futurity

First recorded in 1595–1605; future + -ity

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