posterity
noun/pɒˈsterəti/
/pɑːˈsterəti/
[uncountable] (formal)- all the people who will live in the future
- Their music has been preserved for posterity.
- Posterity will remember him as a great man.
- It remains to be seen how posterity will judge her actions.
- The scene was captured for posterity on YouTube.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French posterite, from Latin posteritas, from posterus ‘following’.Want to learn more?
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