futureness

The quality of occurring in, being, or being related to the future.

Noun

  1. The quality of occurring in, being, or being related to the future.
    • To our conclusion, that TIME is the equivalent of Pastness, Presentness, and Futureness, combined, it may be objected, that the word Time is applicable to all the three cases; as we can say, past time, present time, and...
    • What is posited as future is just the futureness of a sprout. That is, the sprout that will come is not future since when it exists, it exists at the present time. - 1990, Daniel Cozort, Unique Tenets of The Middle Way...
    • Furthermore, just as with the two passive syntheses, the third constitutive synthesis is a perspective of time giving us the elements of the futureness of the present and the futureness of the past. - 2016 September 8,...

Origin

From future + -ness.

Forms

futurenesses