posterity
Those who follow
Posterity means future generations—all the people who will exist after the present time.
The word often appears in contexts of legacy and preservation: We must protect the environment for posterity, The letters were saved for posterity.
It can also mean a person's descendants specifically: He had no posterity to inherit the estate.
Biological descendants produced
- childrenYoung human beings
- heirsThose who inherit
- progenyOne's biological descendants
- successorsThose who follow after
lineage · generations · bloodline · scions · issue · seed · brood · kin
Mind's retention capacity
- commemorationAct of honoring memory
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- tributeOffering of respect
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
immortality · fame · renown · reputation · chronicle · record · history · documentation
The day after today
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
- prospectPotential client or opportunity
- horizonApparent earth-sky meeting
- destinyPredetermined course of events
fate · unborn · futurity · hereafter · onward · forward-looking
Property received from ancestors
- bequestGift left by will
- endowmentPermanent donated fund
- patrimonyInherited estate or legacy
- birthrightEntitlement from origin
heirloom · estate · trust · gift · benefaction · testament · foundation · enduring
offspring
Biological descendants produced
successors · lineage · generations · bloodline · scions · issue · seed · brood · kin · dynasty
memory
Mind's retention capacity
- commemorationAct of honoring memory
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- tributeOffering of respect
honor · immortality · fame · renown · reputation · chronicle · record · history · documentation · annals
tomorrow
The day after today
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
- prospectPotential client or opportunity
- horizonApparent earth-sky meeting
destiny · fate · unborn · futurity · hereafter · onward · forward-looking
inheritance
Property received from ancestors
birthright · heirloom · estate · trust · gift · benefaction · testament · foundation · enduring · timeless
tradition
Custom passed through generations
- cultureCollective social practices
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- historyRecord of past events
ancestry · folklore · preservation · conservation · artifacts · relics · archives · antiquity · patrimony · cultural memory
- timesecond, minute, hour, day, seconds
- ancestryancestors, kinship, ancestor, clan, ancestry
- family generationsgenerations, generation, grandparents, grandchildren, grandparent
- futureforthcoming, upcoming, coming, impending, imminent
- offspringchild, baby, son, daughter, kids
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
posterityancestors
Those from whom one descends
forebears · progenitors · forefathers · forbears · forefather
posteritythe past
All elapsed time
antiquity · history · yesteryear · olden times · former times
- posterior chamberEye cavity behind iris
- posterior fossaRear skull cavity
- posterior pituitaryHypothalamic hormone release site