Posterity vs. Progeny
Difference Between Posterity and Progeny
Posterity➦
Future generations
"Everything he writes is consigned to posterity" (Joyce Carol Oates).
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Progeny➦
a descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring
shorthorn cattle are highly effective in bestowing their characteristics on their progeny
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Posterity➦
All of a person's descendants.
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Progeny➦
The organism or organisms resulting from sexual or asexual reproduction.
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Posterity➦
All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.
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Progeny➦
A child or children of a parent or parents
claimed to be the progeny of the king.
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Posterity➦
The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; - contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham.
If [the crown] should not stand in thy posterity.
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Progeny➦
A person's descendants considered as a group.
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Posterity➦
Succeeding generations; future times.
Their names shall be transmitted to posterity.
Their names shall be transmitted to posterity.
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Progeny➦
A result or product
lies that were the progeny of fear.
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Posterity➦
all of the offspring of a given progenitor;
we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity
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Progeny➦
(uncountable) Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
I treasure this five-generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny.
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Posterity➦
all future generations
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Progeny➦
Descent, lineage, ancestry.
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Progeny➦
A result of a creative effort.
His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.
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Progeny➦
Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage.
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Progeny➦
the immediate descendants of a person;
she was the mother of many offspring
he died without issue
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