pa ste rih ti
noun
1. all generations to come.
Their subhuman living conditions would have remained unknown had not one photographer recorded them for posterity.
The monument was to last for posterity.
2. all of one person’s descendants.
“It was all over; that old maid and that aged Cardinal could leave no posterity. They remained face to face like two withered oaks, sole remnants of a vanished forest, and their fall would soon leave the plain quite clear.” (Émile Zola, The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete)