futurity

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The future. countable,uncountable
    — Charles's was just an exciting consciousness; and he paced the streets, sometimes roused into disdain of the busy and thoughtless crowd around, but oftener lost in gloomy dreams of that futurity whose depths he was so soon to explore.
  2. The state of being in the future. countable,uncountable
    — [I]ts meaning is often tentative and fluctuates, but most often it indicates a level of uncertainty or doubt regarding futurity (”likely but not certain“)[.]
  3. A future event. countable,uncountable
    — [A] Scepticiſm, that's the only vvay to Science. But yet this is ſo difficult in the impartial and exact performance, that it may be vvell reckon'd among the bare Poſsibilities, vvhich never commence into a Futurity: It requiring ſuch a free, ſedate, and intent minde, as it may be no vvhere found but among the Platonical Idea's.
  4. A race for two-year-old horses, nominated to run when still foals. countable,uncountable

词形变化

futurities plural

词汇关系

衍生词
futuritial

词源

Etymology tree
English future
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English futurity
From future + -ity.
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