Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

futurism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈfjuːt͡ʃəɹɪzəm/

Etymology

Etymology tree English future Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English futurism From future + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) 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:
  2. (countable, uncountable) The study and prediction of possible futures.
  3. (Judaism, countable, uncountable) The Jewish expectation of the messiah in the future.
  4. (countable, uncountable) Eschatological interpretations associating some Biblical prophecies with future events yet to be fulfilled, including the Second Coming.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
futurisms Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

techno-futurism · cassette futurism · moral futurism · retro-futurism · Y2K futurism · Africanfuturism · futurist · neofuturism · cubo-futurism · Afrofuturism · retrofuturism

Relateds

historicism · preterism

Synonyms

futurology

Translations (27)

tr fütürizm (art movement) · pt futurismo (art movement) · es futurismo (art movement) · no futurisme (art movement) · ru футури́зм (art movement) · sh футуризам (art movement) · ro futurism (art movement) · eo futurismo (art movement) · fr futurisme (art movement) · kk футуризм (art movement) · cs futurismus (art movement) · az futurizm (art movement) · fi futurismi (art movement) · pl futuryzm (art movement) · ja 未来派 (art movement) · el φουτουρισμός (art movement) · sh futurizam (art movement) · gl futurismo (art movement) · cmn 未來主義 /未来主义 (art movement) · ja フューチャリズム (art movement) · is fútúrismi (art movement) · bg футури́зъм (art movement) · ca futurisme (art movement) · it futurismo (art movement) · ga todhchaíochas (art movement) · az gələcəkçilik (art movement) · de Futurismus (art movement)