Pronounced: fruhs-TRAY-nee-uhs, adj
Notes: A nice word to be able to use
Yesterday’s word
The word futurity means
- time to come; future
- the quality or state of being future
- future events or prospects
First usage
Our word came into English around 1600
Background / Comments
Our word would appear to be coined by Shakespeare in the play Othello. It was also used by Benjamin Franklin and Sir Walter Scott. It is merely a combination of future and the suffix -ity. There is also a “futurity race” (usually for two-year-old horses) in which entries for the race are made are made well before the event — usually at the birth of the horse (or even before then).
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