futurism

Plural: futurisms

Noun

• An artistic and literary movement celebrating modernity and technology.
• an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age
• the position that the meaning of life should be sought in the future
• 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.
• The study and prediction of possible futures.
• The Jewish expectation of the messiah in the future.
• Eschatological interpretations associating some Biblical prophecies with future events yet to be fulfilled, including the Second Coming.

Examples

• His bold, aggressive plays on the Scrabble board showed a distinct futurism in his strategy.

Synonyms

futurology

Related Words

historicism, preterism