futureness
nounUK /ˈfjuːt͡ʃənəs/ · US /ˈfjuːt͡ʃɚnəs/
Etymology From future + -ness.
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Human sciences, Philosophy, Psychology, Sciences 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 future time, all with equal propriety.1829, James Mill, Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind, Volume 2, page 103:
- 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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- 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: