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

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1. posterity

   Synonyms:
   futurity

   Antonyms:
   ancestry

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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

2. posteritynoun

   all future generations

   Synonyms:
   descendants

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1. • Biological Group
   • Generation

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1. posteritynoun

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

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1. Joseph Addison:

   Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

2. Henry David Thoreau:

   This American government -- what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.

3. Walter Savage Landor:

   The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

4. Heywood Broun:

   Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

5. Harold J. Seymore:

   Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.