Usually means: Future generations; all descendants collectively.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. posterity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. posterity: Merriam-Webster
  3. posterity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. posterity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. posterity: Collins English Dictionary
  6. posterity: Vocabulary.com
  7. Posterity, posterity: Wordnik
  8. posterity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. posterity: Wiktionary
  10. posterity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. posterity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. posterity: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. posterity: Dictionary.com
  14. posterity: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Posterity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Posterity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. posterity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. posterity: Rhymezone
  19. posterity: FreeDictionary.org
  20. posterity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. posterity: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. posterity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  23. posterity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  24. posterity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. posterity: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. posterity: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. posterity: Legal dictionary
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (posterity)

▸ noun:  All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.
▸ noun:  (transferred sense) Future audiences, future times, future recognition.

Similar:
descendants, offspring, issue, generation, progeny, sequel, progenitor, heirs and successors, progeniture, people, more...

Opposite:
antediluvian, primitive, primordial

Types:
future, generations, progeny, descendants, lineage, more...

Phrases:
for posterity, opposite of posterity, check something for posterity, more...

Adjectives:
latest, numerous, remotest, own, grateful, distant, whole, impartial, immediate, male, innocent

Colors:
    emerald,     sapphire,     gold,     silver,     ruby, more...


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Similar:
descendants, offspring, issue, generation, progeny, sequel, progenitor, heirs and successors, progeniture, people, more...

Opposite:
antediluvian, primitive, primordial

Types:
future, generations, progeny, descendants, lineage, more...

Phrases:
for posterity, opposite of posterity, check something for posterity, more...

Adjectives:
latest, numerous, remotest, own, grateful, distant, whole, impartial, immediate, male, innocent

Colors:
    emerald,     sapphire,     gold,     silver,     ruby, more...



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