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Offshoot vs Posterity - What's the difference?

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Offshoot is a related term of posterity.


As nouns the difference between offshoot and posterity

is that offshoot is that which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc; as, the offshoots of a tree while posterity is all the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.

offshoot

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(wikipedia offshoot) (en noun)
  • That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.

    • Synonyms

    * spinoff

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    posterity

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 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.}}

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    * See post-

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