Futurity (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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?
  3. the afterlife: the promise of eternal rest in futurity.
  4. 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.
  5. the quality of being future: the futurity of the end of the world.
  6. 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 plural -ties
  1. a less common word for future
  2. the quality of being in the future
  3. a future event
Futurity (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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