futurities

Noun

futurity (countable and uncountable, plural futurities)

1. 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.[1832], L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Talisman”, in Heath’s Book of Beauty. M.DCCC.XXXIII. […], London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, […] [for Charles Heath], →OCLC, page 66

   Synonyms:

   aftertime, to-be, future, hereafter, to-come

2. 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“)[.]2022, Daisy Neijman, Icelandic: An Essential Grammar, Routledge, page 73

   Synonyms:

   futurition

3. A future event.
   • [A] Scepticiſm, that's the only vvay to Science. But yet this is ſo difficult in the impartial and exact performance, that it may be vvell reckon'd among the bare Poſsibilities, vvhich never commence into a Futurity: It requiring ſuch a free, ſedate, and intent minde, as it may be no vvhere found...1661, Joseph Glanvill, “A Third Reason of Our Ignorance and Error, viz. the Impostures and Deceits of Our Senses. […]”, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E....

   Synonyms:

   maybe

4. A race for two-year-old horses, nominated to run when still foals.