ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsPposterity
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posterity
Meaning: all future generations collectively, especially as inheritors of something
posterity in a sentence
How posterity is used in real sentences:
The museum digitized every photograph so future readers would have an unbroken visual record.
Believing the discovery mattered beyond his own lifetime, the scientist recorded every detail carefully for posterity.
“Chen archived the photographs for posterity, knowing that researchers decades later might compare them with a warmer, higher sea.”
— from the passage A Basin Between Tides
Synonyms for posterity
Other words for posterity — descendants and progeny — carry the same meaning.
- descendants
- progeny
Antonyms of posterity
Words that mean the opposite of posterity:
- ancestors
- forebears
- predecessors
Where it comes from
From Latin posterus 'coming after'
Word parts
- post — after
posterity: post- (after) + -erity (state of)
Memory hook
POSTER(ity) sounds like POST — those who come after us.