Definition of Posterity

all future generations

Examples of Posterity in a sentence

We bury time capsules for ourselves and for posterity.  🔊

As a historian, it is Phillip’s job to preserve historical documents and artifacts for our posterity.  🔊

What the great artists left to posterity was a huge collection of masterpieces.  🔊

Even if you do not care about posterity, you should at least care about yourself!  🔊

For the sake of posterity, countries of the world must put aside their differences.  🔊

Before printing became possible, history was shared through stories which were passed along for posterity.  🔊

Without a care for posterity, people waste more clean water than they actually use.  🔊

Stop cutting down trees for posterity’s sake!  🔊

When we make decisions today, posterity must deal with the consequences tomorrow.  🔊

If we leave nothing else behind for posterity, let us leave hope.  🔊

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