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单词 futurity
释义 fu·tu·ri·ty
\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
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