approaching vs future

approaching and future both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
approaching	Yes	Yes	No	No
future	Yes	Yes	No	No

approaching (noun)	future (noun)
the act of drawing spatially closer to something	bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date
the temporal property of becoming nearer in time	a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future
the event of one object coming closer to another	the time yet to come

approaching (adjective)	future (adjective)
of the relatively near future	yet to be or coming
	a verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened
	(of elected officers) elected but not yet serving
	effective in or looking toward the future