futureness

plural futurenesses

1. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe quality of being future, or of occurring in or being related to the future.

   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 Consequence School: The Systematization of the Philosophy of the Indian Buddhist Prāsaṅgika- Mādhyamika School by the Tibetan Ge-luk-ba Scholastic Tradition, page 225

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   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 future time, all with equal propriety.

   1829, James Mill, Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind, Volume 2, page 103

   Over generations of learners, people paid less and less attention to the lexical ‘want’ aspect of the meaning and focused on the futureness of it – until the lexical meaning was mostly forgotten.

   2010, M. Lynne Murphy, Lexical Meaning, page 97

   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, David Deamer, Deleuze's Cinema Books: Three Introductions to the Taxonomy of Images, page 49

   Synonyms: futurity