futurism
noun/ˈfjuːt͡ʃəɹɪzəm/
Etymology From future + -ism.
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Art, Arts 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.
- 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. […1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Futurists”, in Alarms and Discursions:
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The study and prediction of possible futures.
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Judaism The Jewish expectation of the messiah in the future.
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Christianity Eschatological interpretations associating some Biblical prophecies with future events yet to be fulfilled, including the Second Coming.
- Derived terms
- Africanfuturism, Afrofuturism, cubo-futurism, futurist, moral futurism, neofuturism, retro-futurism, retrofuturism, techno-futurism
- Related terms
- historicism, preterism