futurity
b'\\n \\n \\n Merriam-Webster\'s Word of the Day for December 31, 2023 is:\\n \\n \\n futurity • \\\\fyoo-TOOR-uh-tee\\\\ • noun Futurity is a formal, literary synonym of future meaning \\u201ctime to come.\\u201d The plural form, futurities, can also refer to future events or prospects. // The motivational speaker exhorted us to change the way we live today, rather than looking always toward some vague distant futurity.
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\\u201cThe 18th floor, two-room suite with a spacious balcony overlooking 27th Street has been transformed by the recent Yale grad, in a project aiming to broadly represent the values of the queer and creative community. ... Standard hotel whites are swapped for neon, patterned towels and bathrobes, with nods to science fiction and a theme of queer futurity continuous throughout the space.\\u201d \\u2014 Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes, 31 July 2023
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For a forward-looking word, futurity has quite the literate past. Its first known use comes from Act III of Shakespeare\\u2019s tragedy Othello, when the downtrodden Cassio, mystified about why Othello has turned against him, beseeches Desdemona to tell him whether his \\u201coffense be of such mortal kind / That nor my service past, nor present sorrows, / Nor purpos\\u2019d merit in futurity / Can ransom me into his love again.\\u201d Centuries later the Scottish writer Walter Scott wrote of events still in \\u201cthe womb of futurity,\\u201d employing a phrase also used by James Fenimore Cooper, among others. Though still in use and very much useful, futurity tends to lend one\\u2019s speech or writing a lofty tone, so if the situation calls for something more down-to-earth, you may want to go back to [the] future.
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