posterity
pos-TER-ih-teenounMeaning all the people of the future; later generations
Memory hook a POSTER for the FUTURE: POSTER-ity. The class seals a poster in a time capsule for the children of a hundred years from now: they are saving it for posterity.
Mom recorded Grandpa’s stories for posterity.
In context The museum carefully preserves the old letters, not only for today’s visitors but for posterity, so that people a hundred years from now can read them too.
Similar future generations, descendants, heirs
Opposite ancestors, forebears
From Latin posteritas, from posterus (coming after), from post (after).