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/pɒˈstɛɹɪti/ · noun
All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person..
That woman foretold and inflicted a singular disease on Sigvard and his posterity till the ninth generation, and several of his descendants are to this day afflicted with it.
The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.
Use posterity when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Posterity means All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person..
Common synonyms include descendants.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
That woman foretold and inflicted a singular disease on Sigvard and his posterity till the ninth generation, and several of his descendants are to this day afflicted with it.
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