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Futurism

//ˈfjuːt͡ʃəɹɪzəm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An early 20th century avant-garde art movement focused on speed, the mechanical, and the modern, which took a deeply antagonistic attitude to traditional artistic conventions. countable, uncountable

    "Suffice it to say that Futurism has a gratifying dislike both of Liberal politics and Christian morals; I say gratifying because, however unfortunately the cross and the cap of liberty have quarrelled, they are always united in the feeble hatred of such silly megalomaniacs as these. […"

  2. 2
    the position that the meaning of life should be sought in the future wordnet
  3. 3
    The study and prediction of possible futures. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age wordnet
  5. 5
    The Jewish expectation of the messiah in the future. Judaism, countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    Eschatological interpretations associating some Biblical prophecies with future events yet to be fulfilled, including the Second Coming. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From future + -ism.

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