futurity

Time not yet

Futurity is the quality or state of being in the future, or the future itself considered as a whole: The futurity of these plans remains uncertain.

It can also refer to a future event or possibility: contemplating various futurities.

In horse racing, a futurity is a race for young horses nominated before birth or as foals.

anticipation

expectation

Belief about future outcomes

hopefulness · yearning · longing · eagerness · prognostication · forecasting · planning · readiness · provision · visualization

temporal

time

Measured passage of moments

  • chronologyTemporal ordering of events
  • epochDistinct historical period
  • eraDistinct historical period

millennium · century · decade · perpetuity · infinity · eons · posterity · hereafter · afterwards · later

speculation

uncertainty

State of being unsure

probability · contingency · indefiniteness · ambiguity · speculation · indeterminacy · randomness · possibility · potential · conjecture

horseracing

two-year-old

Child of twenty-four months

filly · thoroughbred · breeder · pedigree · trainer · derby · handicap · purse · nomination · eligibility

financial

investment

Deploying capital for returns

opportunity · expansion · prosperity · wealth · succession · retirement · endowment · estate · legacy · inheritance

innovation

technology

Applied scientific methods

robotics · automation · biotech · nanotech · modernization · breakthrough · prototype · development · singularity · transhumanism

Categories
Opposites
temporal direction

futuritypastness

Quality of being bygone

past · yesteryear · yore · antiquity · yesterday

temporal immediacy

futuritypresentness

State of being here

nowness · present · now · today · the here and now

temporal quality/age

futurityantiquity

Great age, ancient era

ancientness · old · oldness · archaism · obsolescence

Phrases
Family

futuristic, futurist, futurism, futurists

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