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单词 futurity
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Definition of futurity in English:

futurity

nounPlural futurities fjuːˈtʃʊərɪtifjuːˈtjʊərɪti
  • 1mass noun The future time.

    the tremendous shadows which futurity casts upon the present
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We can so far take a prophetic glance into futurity as to foretell that it will be the common and widely-spread species, belonging to the larger and dominant groups, which will ultimately prevail and procreate new and dominant species.
    • Any event must have all three properties, pastness, presentness and futurity, but this is a contradiction.
    • Its great to go into a room somewhere and listen to all of this sound, sound that is full of futurity, sound that is presented as an event of the mind rather than the body - where it will take us, we shall see.
    • Expectation is a calculus of futurity, an extrapolation of narrativised past events into the future.
    • There is enough of sorrow in this world, without looking into futurity for it.
    • Is the Place a reservoir of history, or a well of futurity?
    • The danger is of developing hibernation strategies which envisage a futurity whose solace is retrospective.
    • Often the anxiety seems concealed under a discourse of futurity, in which attention is given to what life online might become - with contradictions deleted - rather than giving attention to what actually happens or has happened.
    • Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.
    • It is simply not right that a space program be merely a bauble of a billionaire when all of futurity beckons.
    • It is ‘the democracy to come’ not in terms of futurity, but in terms of instability; that is, it is structurally performative.
    • Yet pastness and futurity, he argued, are inherently contradictory; so nothing in reality can correspond to them.
    • Asleep here are those who had sacrificed the life of this world for the life of futurity.
    • They realized that, whether a man is most swayed by the one or the other, what he must most depend upon and desire, is a knowledge of futurity.
    • By entering this nothingness, which is the constitutive risk of already dwelling on the earth - call it the burden of consciousness or the task of history - we take up the needfulness of futurity itself.
    • If there is some take on that side, then there may be able to be some more give on mine. I was struck by the concept of futurity in both your poetry and criticism.
    • At that point it's a conceptual lyrical moment where the poem is becoming aware, or I am becoming aware of the piece at that point as having to do with futurity.
    • The second possibility was a fixed date - some date in futurity, which could have been the commencement date.
    • As You Like It is perhaps ideal for such treatment, since in that play the attempt to marry wilfulness and futurity is the outcome of a comic action of forced reconcilement.
    • As Favaro noted, on the second line Galileo had first written 15 February, then changed it to the 16th - an initial error, we may conjecture, as caused confusion in futurity.
    1. 1.1count noun A future event.
      the great novelists who truly mirror the tremendous futurities
      Example sentencesExamples
      • No part - no part - of that liability in any way relates, on the evidence - it has not been suggested that it relates on the evidence - to any advantage flowing from the futurity of discharge.
      • Hopefully, in the next set, they'll also grace us with something more in the way of special features: radio shows, interviews, futurities, maybe even commentaries.
      • Freedom from the old, freedom from aesthetic determination and the law of Rowley, depends upon an impossible futurity.
      • Security is the superposition of one moment upon the next in a serial form for the sake of a calculated futurity (expectation).
      • Instead it enacts a movement from future to past that hints towards a futurity entirely removed from linear temporality.
    2. 1.2 Renewed or continuing existence.
      the snowdrops were a promise of futurity
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The perceiving individual's terminal attitudes constitute an anticipatory contact experience in which the futurity of distant objects is reduced to an abstract contemporaneity.
      • This chapter announces the promising futurity of ‘Unnatural Acts and the Next Acts.’
      • The last sentence, however, abruptly changes the futurity of the goals and positions them as long-established truths.
      • Wilkinson's piece is a consummate attempt to rise to the challenge of the embarrassment of the manifesto, with a hesitation and a promise for futurity in what he calls a ‘superversive manifesto’.
      • The futurity of God's self-naming- ‘I shall be what I shall be’ leads to the profound reflection that redemption is an episodic phenomenon.
      • Reality is airbrushed and we're given promises of fabulous, mythical oases of futurity.
  • 2US

    short for futurity race
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The sport was growing here in numbers, but many cutters did not want to travel all the way to Texas to compete in a first-rate futurity.
    • Most of the big futurities have these future fortunes side pots.
    • Some of the top breeders in the region are consigning colts so that they can show in the futurities.
    • In Michigan and Virginia, he plays host to two of the largest western pleasure futurities in the world.
    • Buckles will be awarded to the winners of all futurities.
    • In 2001, he competed at the futurity with broken ribs and a punctured lung.
    • Created over 30 years ago to perpetuate the traditional progression of training the California Vaquero Bridle Horse, the futurity has a special mystique.
    • Both futurities are held during our Thanksgiving Appaloosa Horse Show, held annually in Moose Jaw, Sask.
    • He is also eligible for the PHSC Yearling Lounge Line, two-year-old western pleasure and three-year old reining futurities.
    • ‘We don't have a lot of futurities down in our area, but she did place in a futurity last year,’ she said.
    • What we're referring to is a futurity, a contest featuring young livestock.
    • The winners of the incentive portion of the futurities received a lettered jacket in addition to the money.
    • You will be right to compete at Neosha for high point awards and compete in our open futurities.
    • Watch for Hanna in the yearling futurities and open yearling filly classes at the APHA shows in 2007.
    • Like an equine futurity, the bulls were judged on their performance, even though most of the time the rider didn't make the 8-second buzzer.

Rhymes

biosecurity, cybersecurity, immaturity, impurity, maturity, obscurity, purity, security, surety
 
 

Definition of futurity in US English:

futurity

noun
  • 1The future time.

    the tremendous shadows that futurity casts upon the present
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If there is some take on that side, then there may be able to be some more give on mine. I was struck by the concept of futurity in both your poetry and criticism.
    • Any event must have all three properties, pastness, presentness and futurity, but this is a contradiction.
    • We can so far take a prophetic glance into futurity as to foretell that it will be the common and widely-spread species, belonging to the larger and dominant groups, which will ultimately prevail and procreate new and dominant species.
    • Asleep here are those who had sacrificed the life of this world for the life of futurity.
    • There is enough of sorrow in this world, without looking into futurity for it.
    • Yet pastness and futurity, he argued, are inherently contradictory; so nothing in reality can correspond to them.
    • They realized that, whether a man is most swayed by the one or the other, what he must most depend upon and desire, is a knowledge of futurity.
    • As Favaro noted, on the second line Galileo had first written 15 February, then changed it to the 16th - an initial error, we may conjecture, as caused confusion in futurity.
    • Its great to go into a room somewhere and listen to all of this sound, sound that is full of futurity, sound that is presented as an event of the mind rather than the body - where it will take us, we shall see.
    • As You Like It is perhaps ideal for such treatment, since in that play the attempt to marry wilfulness and futurity is the outcome of a comic action of forced reconcilement.
    • The danger is of developing hibernation strategies which envisage a futurity whose solace is retrospective.
    • Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.
    • It is ‘the democracy to come’ not in terms of futurity, but in terms of instability; that is, it is structurally performative.
    • Is the Place a reservoir of history, or a well of futurity?
    • It is simply not right that a space program be merely a bauble of a billionaire when all of futurity beckons.
    • Expectation is a calculus of futurity, an extrapolation of narrativised past events into the future.
    • Often the anxiety seems concealed under a discourse of futurity, in which attention is given to what life online might become - with contradictions deleted - rather than giving attention to what actually happens or has happened.
    • By entering this nothingness, which is the constitutive risk of already dwelling on the earth - call it the burden of consciousness or the task of history - we take up the needfulness of futurity itself.
    • At that point it's a conceptual lyrical moment where the poem is becoming aware, or I am becoming aware of the piece at that point as having to do with futurity.
    • The second possibility was a fixed date - some date in futurity, which could have been the commencement date.
    1. 1.1 A future event.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • No part - no part - of that liability in any way relates, on the evidence - it has not been suggested that it relates on the evidence - to any advantage flowing from the futurity of discharge.
      • Security is the superposition of one moment upon the next in a serial form for the sake of a calculated futurity (expectation).
      • Hopefully, in the next set, they'll also grace us with something more in the way of special features: radio shows, interviews, futurities, maybe even commentaries.
      • Instead it enacts a movement from future to past that hints towards a futurity entirely removed from linear temporality.
      • Freedom from the old, freedom from aesthetic determination and the law of Rowley, depends upon an impossible futurity.
    2. 1.2 Renewed or continuing existence.
      the snowdrops were a promise of futurity
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The futurity of God's self-naming- ‘I shall be what I shall be’ leads to the profound reflection that redemption is an episodic phenomenon.
      • Wilkinson's piece is a consummate attempt to rise to the challenge of the embarrassment of the manifesto, with a hesitation and a promise for futurity in what he calls a ‘superversive manifesto’.
      • The last sentence, however, abruptly changes the futurity of the goals and positions them as long-established truths.
      • The perceiving individual's terminal attitudes constitute an anticipatory contact experience in which the futurity of distant objects is reduced to an abstract contemporaneity.
      • Reality is airbrushed and we're given promises of fabulous, mythical oases of futurity.
      • This chapter announces the promising futurity of ‘Unnatural Acts and the Next Acts.’
    3. 1.3US
      short for futurity race
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Buckles will be awarded to the winners of all futurities.
      • Some of the top breeders in the region are consigning colts so that they can show in the futurities.
      • Most of the big futurities have these future fortunes side pots.
      • He is also eligible for the PHSC Yearling Lounge Line, two-year-old western pleasure and three-year old reining futurities.
      • ‘We don't have a lot of futurities down in our area, but she did place in a futurity last year,’ she said.
      • The sport was growing here in numbers, but many cutters did not want to travel all the way to Texas to compete in a first-rate futurity.
      • In 2001, he competed at the futurity with broken ribs and a punctured lung.
      • The winners of the incentive portion of the futurities received a lettered jacket in addition to the money.
      • Watch for Hanna in the yearling futurities and open yearling filly classes at the APHA shows in 2007.
      • You will be right to compete at Neosha for high point awards and compete in our open futurities.
      • In Michigan and Virginia, he plays host to two of the largest western pleasure futurities in the world.
      • Created over 30 years ago to perpetuate the traditional progression of training the California Vaquero Bridle Horse, the futurity has a special mystique.
      • Both futurities are held during our Thanksgiving Appaloosa Horse Show, held annually in Moose Jaw, Sask.
      • What we're referring to is a futurity, a contest featuring young livestock.
      • Like an equine futurity, the bulls were judged on their performance, even though most of the time the rider didn't make the 8-second buzzer.
 
 
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