fyüˈt]u̇rəd.ē, fyü.ˈty], fyüˈch], ]ür-, -ətē, -i noun
( -es )
Etymology: future (I) + -ity
1. : time to come : future
neither service past, nor present sorrows, nor purposed merit in futurity can ransom me into his love again — Shakespeare
2. : the quality or state of being future
futurity of current architecture
3.
a. futurities plural : future events or prospects
the reader whose scholarship is still among his futurities — Thomas De Quincey
b. : what will exist or happen in the future
gazing … into futurity across the groom's shoulder — Marguerite Steen
specifically : posterity
c. : a prospective future state ; specifically : life after death
from this earth set free in some remote futurity — Walter de la Mare
4. : futurity race