futurity
pronunciation
How to pronounce futurity in British English:
UK [fjuˈtjʊərəti]
How to pronounce futurity in American English:
US [fjuˈtʊrəti]
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- Noun:
- the time yet to come
- the quality of being in or of the future
Word Origin
- futurity (n.)
- c. 1600, from future + -ity.
Example
- 1. The service is called futurity , and it includes a web site where research news from some of the nation 's top universities , such as yale , princeton and the university of california , berkeley , is aggregated .
- 2. But press releases and stories prepared by research institutions are " not a substitute for independent reporting by science journalists , " she said , adding that futurity 's content should be clearly labeled as generated by the sponsoring institutions .
- 3. Bob finn , the san francisco bureau chief for the international medical news group , says that futurity and its consumers would benefit from complete transparency on its site as to who is managing and editing the site and how it is funded .
- 4. Yahoo will treat futurity stories as news , ( though many journalists and news outlets would not ) and include its content with other news items from more traditional sources , such as the associated press and the new york times , the mercury news reported .
- 5. Futurity follows other recent innovative approaches to getting university research posted on news sites , such as content partnerships that the national science foundation ( nsf ) has withus news & world reportand livescience.com ( the content on those sites is clearly marked as provided by the nsf ) .