posterity
noun /pɒˈsterəti/
/pɑːˈsterəti/
[uncountable] (formal)- all the people who will live in the future
- Their music has been preserved for posterity.
- Posterity will remember him as a great man.
- It remains to be seen how posterity will judge her actions.
- The scene was captured for posterity by the camera of Lord Snowdon.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French posterite, from Latin posteritas, from posterus ‘following’.