futurity

future +‎ -ity

• IPA^(key): /fjuːˈtjʊəɹɪti/, /fjuːˈt͡ʃʊəɹɪti/

futurity (countable and uncountable, plural futurities)

1. The future.
   • 1895, H. G. Wells, chapter XIII, in The Time Machine:

     Now instead of reversing the levers I had pulled them over so as to go forward with them, and when I came to look at these indicators I found that the thousands hand was sweeping round as fast as the seconds hand of a watch, into futurity.

2. The state of being in the future.
3. A future event.
   • 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I:

     […] on this perhaps,
     This peradventure, infamous for lies,
     As on a rock of adamant, we build
     Our mountain hopes; spin out eternal schemes,
     As we the fatal sisters could out-spin,
     And, big with life’s futurities, expire.

• (the future): aftertime, to-be; see also Thesaurus:the future
• (state of being in the future): futurition
• (a future event): maybe

• futuritial