Definition of "futurity"

Charles's was just an exciting consciousness; and he paced the streets, sometimes roused into disdain of the busy and thoughtless crowd around, but oftener lost in gloomy dreams of that futurity whose depths he was so soon to explore.

1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 66

Now instead of reversing the levers I had pulled them over so as to go forward with them, and when I came to look at these indicators I found that the thousands hand was sweeping round as fast as the seconds hand of a watch, into futurity.

1895, H. G. Wells, chapter XIII, in The Time Machine

[…] on this perhaps,This peradventure, infamous for lies,As on a rock of adamant, we buildOur mountain hopes; spin out eternal schemes,As we the fatal sisters could out-spin,And, big with life’s futurities, expire.

1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I