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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. posterity

   Synonyms:
   futurity

   Antonyms:
   ancestry

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.7 / 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

2. posteritynoun

   all future generations

   Synonyms:
   descendants

Matched Categories

1. • Biological Group
   • Generation

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1. posteritynoun

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

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How to use posterity in a sentence?

1. Samuel Adams:

   Comtemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen and then ask yourself, What should be the reward of such sacrifices... If ye love wealth better than freedom, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands that feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

2. Thomas Paine:

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

3. Walter Savage Landor:

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

4. J. Allen Hynek:

   I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and indeed a 30th Century science, from which vantage points our knowledge of the universe may appear quite different than it does to us. We suffer, perhaps, from temporal provincialism, a form of arrogance that has always irritated posterity.

5. 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.