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Posterity is defined by Dictionary.com as follows:
pos-ter-i-ty -noun
1. succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must be left to posterity. 2. all descendants of one person: His fortune was gradually dissipated by his posterity. [Origin: 1350–1400; ME posterite < L posteritās, n. deriv. of posterus coming after. See posterior, -ity]
