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. Phoebe Barnard:

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

2. 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.

3. Harold J. Seymore:

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

4. John Dryden:

   We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.

5. James Russell Lowell:

   A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.