futurity
Collocations
2ADJ.
likely
VERB + FUTURITY
doubt, dreams, regarding
Definitions
noun
The future.
Charles's was just an exciting consciousness; and he paced the streets, sometimes roused into disdain of the busy and thoughtless crowd around, but oftener lost in gloomy dreams of that futurity whose depths he was so soon to explore.
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.
The state of being in the future.
[I]ts meaning is often tentative and fluctuates, but most often it indicates a level of uncertainty or doubt regarding futurity (”likely but not certain“)[.]
A future event.
[…] 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.
A race for two-year-old horses, nominated to run when still foals.
Thesaurus
Antonyms
- pastness
- presentness
- nowness
- past
- yesteryear
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
3Charles's was just an exciting consciousness; and he paced the streets, sometimes roused into disdain of the busy and thoughtless crowd around, but oftener lost in gloomy dreams of that futurity whose
WiktionaryNow 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
Wiktionary[I]ts meaning is often tentative and fluctuates, but most often it indicates a level of uncertainty or doubt regarding futurity (”likely but not certain“)[.]
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