futurism
English
Etymology
From future + -ism.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfjuːt͡ʃəɹɪzəm/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
futurism (countable and uncountable, plural futurisms)
- (art) 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.
- 1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Futurists”, in Alarms and Discursions:
- 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. […]
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- The study and prediction of possible futures.
- Synonym: futurology
- (Judaism) The Jewish expectation of the messiah in the future rather than recognizing him in the presence of Christ.
- (Christianity) Eschatological interpretations associating some Biblical prophecies with future events yet to be fulfilled, including the Second Coming.
Derived terms
- Afrofuturism
- cubo-futurism
- futurist
- moral futurism
- retro-futurism
Translations
art movement
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study of possible futures — see futurology
See also
- historicism
- preterism
Romanian
Etymology
From French futurisme.
Noun
futurism n (uncountable)
- futurism
Declension
declension of futurism (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) futurism | futurismul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) futurism | futurismului |
| vocative | futurismule | |