future vs approaching

future and approaching both are nouns.

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

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

future (adjective)	approaching (adjective)
yet to be or coming	of the relatively near future
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