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posterity

noun
/pɒˈstɛɹɪti/UK

Etymology

Late 14th century, from Middle French posterité, from Latin posteritas, from posterus (“following, coming after”), from post (“after”) (English post-).

  1. derived from post-)
  2. derived from posteritas
  3. derived from posterité

Definitions

  1. All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.

    • That woman foretold and inflicted a singular disease on Sigvard and his posterity till the ninth generation, and several of his descendants are to this day afflicted with it.

  2. Future audiences, future times, future recognition.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for posterity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA