futurism

plural futurisms

1. countableuncountableartAn 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

2. countableuncountableAn attitude or belief that emphasizes the future and progress.

   Kohn and Sokolsky, op. cit., pp. 73-74, observe that in statements made elsewhere, Sithole seems to have contradicted the “futurism” of his attitude in this book.

   2015, Self-Determination and History in the Third World, page 35

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   However, Skjönsberg’s chapter on ‘Bolingbroke’s Country Party Opposition Platform’, pp. 77–110, stresses the futurism of his goal to ‘legitimise opposition and a specific kind of political party’, p. 110.

   2025, Charlotte Smith’s Liberal Feminism, page 76

3. countableuncountableThe study and prediction of possible futures.

   Synonyms: futurology

4. JudaismcountableuncountableThe Jewish expectation of the messiah in the future.
5. countableuncountableChristianityEschatological interpretations associating some Biblical prophecies with future events yet to be fulfilled, including the Second Coming.