future vs impending

future

noun
  • Something that will happen in moments yet to come. 

  • An object that retrieves the value of a promise. 

  • A minor-league prospect. 

  • The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced. 

  • The likely prospects for or fate of someone or something in time to come. 

  • Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense. 

  • Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to. 

adj
  • Having to do with or occurring in the future. 

impending

noun
  • Something that impends or threatens; an expected event. 

adj
  • Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen. 

How often have the words future and impending occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )