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单词 futurity
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futurity

/fjuːˈtjʊərɪti / /fjuːˈtʃʊərɪti/
noun (plural futurities)
1 [mass noun] The future time: the tremendous shadows which futurity casts upon the present...
  • 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.
  • 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?
1.1 [count noun] A future event: the great novelists who truly mirror the tremendous futurities...
  • 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.
  • 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.
1.2Renewed or continuing existence: the snowdrops were a promise of futurity...
  • 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’.
  • 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.’
2US short for futurity race.Created over 30 years ago to perpetuate the traditional progression of training the California Vaquero Bridle Horse, the futurity has a special mystique....
  • In 2001, he competed at the futurity with broken ribs and a punctured lung.
  • ‘We don't have a lot of futurities down in our area, but she did place in a futurity last year,’ she said.

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