posterity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of POSTERITY

the descendants of a person, animal, or plant <an association for people who have claims for being the posterity of Thomas Jefferson>

Synonyms fruit, get, issue, posterity, progeny, seed, spawn

Related Words brood, hatch, litter, young; child, scion; family, kin; lineage, stock

Near Antonyms ancestor, antecedent, father, forebear (also forbear), forebearer, forefather, grandfather, parent, primogenitor, progenitor

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