FUTURITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)