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Futurity

//fjuːˈtjʊəɹɪti// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The future. countable, uncountable

    "Charles's was just an exciting consciousness; and he paced the streets, sometimes roused into disdain of the busy and thoughtless crowd around, but oftener lost in gloomy dreams of that futurity whose depths he was so soon to explore."

  2. 2
    the quality of being in or of the future wordnet
  3. 3
    The state of being in the future. countable, uncountable

    "[I]ts meaning is often tentative and fluctuates, but most often it indicates a level of uncertainty or doubt regarding futurity (”likely but not certain“)[.]"

  4. 4
    the time yet to come wordnet
  5. 5
    A future event. countable, uncountable

    "[…] on this perhaps, This peradventure, infamous for lies, As on a rock of adamant, we build Our mountain hopes; spin out eternal schemes, As we the fatal sisters could out-spin, And, big with life’s futurities, expire."

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  1. 6
    A race for two-year-old horses, nominated to run when still foals. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From future + -ity.

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