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futurity Definition

fu·tu·rity (fyo̵̅o̅ to̵or′ə tē, -tyo̵or′-, -c̸ho̵or′-)

noun pl. futurities -·ties

    1. the future
    2. a future condition or event
  2. the quality of being future
  3. futurity race
futurity Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • modulation: Futurity modulation coincides, in the current meteorology of mood, with the generalized affect of bioterror.
futurity Quotes

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futuritycastsuponthepresent; thewordswhichexpress what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity.

—Thoreau, Henry David