Heirs vs Posterity - What's the difference?
heirs | posterity | Related terms |
All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1
Heirs is a related term of posterity.
As nouns the difference between heirs and posterity
is that heirs is while posterity is all the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.posterity
English
Noun
(-)citation, passage=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.}}