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FUTURITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being in or of the future
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("futurity" is a kind of...):
timing (the time when something happens)
Antonym:
pastness (the quality of being past)
presentness (the quality of being the present)
Derivation:
future ((of elected officers) elected but not yet serving)
future (yet to be or coming)
future (effective in or looking toward the future)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The time yet to come
Synonyms:
future; futurity; hereafter; time to come
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("futurity" is a kind of...):
time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "futurity"):
kingdom come (the end of time)
by-and-by (an indefinite time in the future)
offing (the near or foreseeable future)
tomorrow (the near future)
manana (an indefinite time in the future)
Derivation:
future (yet to be or coming)
future (effective in or looking toward the future)
