futurities
Events yet ahead
Futurities is the plural of futurity, meaning future events or conditions considered collectively: The report examined possible futurities facing the industry.
In horse racing, a futurity is a race for young horses nominated before birth or as foals, with entry fees building the purse over time: The colt was entered in three futurities.
Commitment to act
- possibilityState of being achievable
- prospectPotential client or opportunity
- capabilityPower to accomplish tasks
- opportunityFavorable circumstance for advancement
development · growth · aspiration · ambition · latency · emergence · unfolding · becoming
Enforceable written agreements
- commoditiesTradeable raw materials
- derivativesThings derived from another
- tradingExchanging for value
- speculationUnproven theorizing or risky investment
hedging · positions · options · margins · settlements · exchanges · livestock · agricultural
Prediction of future conditions
- prophecyForetelling of future events
- prognosticationForetelling future events
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
anticipation · projection · oracle · augury · premonition · harbinger · presage · portent
Uncertain possible event
- unpredictabilityState resisting forecasts
- indeterminacyLack of fixed outcome
- variabilityTendency to change
- probabilityQuantified chance of occurrence
chance · risk · speculation · volatility · flux · randomness · ambiguity · unknown
promise
Commitment to act
- possibilityState of being achievable
- prospectPotential client or opportunity
- capabilityPower to accomplish tasks
opportunity · development · growth · aspiration · ambition · latency · emergence · unfolding · becoming · trajectory
contracts
Enforceable written agreements
- commoditiesTradeable raw materials
- derivativesThings derived from another
- tradingExchanging for value
speculation · hedging · positions · options · margins · settlements · exchanges · livestock · agricultural · pork bellies
forecast
Prediction of future conditions
- prophecyForetelling of future events
- prognosticationForetelling future events
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
foresight · anticipation · projection · oracle · augury · premonition · harbinger · presage · portent · omen
contingency
Uncertain possible event
- unpredictabilityState resisting forecasts
- indeterminacyLack of fixed outcome
- variabilityTendency to change
probability · chance · risk · speculation · volatility · flux · randomness · ambiguity · unknown · improbability
futuritiespasts
Elapsed personal histories
histories · yesterdays · former times · antiquities · yesteryears
futuritiesactualities
Existing states of affairs
realities · certainties · foregone conclusions · givens · fait accompli
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