futurism
pronunciation
How to pronounce futurism in British English:
UK [ˈfju:tʃərɪzəm]
How to pronounce futurism in American English:
US [ˈfjutʃəˌrɪzəm]
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- Noun:
- 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
Word Origin
- futurism (n.)
- 1909 as the name of a movement in arts and literature, from Italian futurismo, coined 1909 by Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944); see future + -ism. Futurist is from 1911 in the arts movement sense; attested from 1842 in a Protestant theological sense ("one who holds that nearly the whole of the Book of Revelations refers principally to events yet to come" - Century Dictionary). As "one who has (positive) feelings about the future" it is attested from 1846 but marked in dictionaries as "rare."
Example
- 1. This is not futurism .
- 2. Just as importantly , they are their own best argument for the profession they invented : futurism .
- 3. In his later years , film-maker walt disney became obsessed with futurism , and in particular how cities should be designed .
- 4. Futurism favors the bold : look more than 30 years ahead , as george orwell did in 1984 or arthur c. clarke in 2001 , and critics will forgive your inaccuracies .
- 5. When I wrote automation over 40 years ago , I did not write it as an exercise in futurism .