posterity
/pɒˈstɛɹɪti/ noun C2- All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.
- Future audiences, future times, future recognition.
Plural posterities
From the library
We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the _éclat_ of a proverb.”
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