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Synonyms for Posterity
pɒˈstɛr ɪ tipos·ter·i·ty

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 2 votes

  1. posterity

    Synonyms:
    futurity

    Antonyms:
    ancestry

Princeton's WordNet3.7 / 3 votes

  1. descendants, posteritynoun

    all of the offspring of a given progenitor

    "we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity"

    Synonyms:
    descendants, posterity

  2. posteritynoun

    all future generations

    Synonyms:
    descendants

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. posteritynoun

    Synonyms:
    descendants, offspring, progeny, after ages, succeeding generations

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How to use Posterity in a sentence?

  1. Thomas Paine:

    When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

  2. Ricther:

    The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

  3. Tacitus:

    Posterity gives every man his true value.

  4. Heywood Broun:

    Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

  5. Phoebe Barnard:

    Posterity will remember them badly for dismissing climate change as a serious threat to our civilization.


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