futurism

noun futurisms

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. […
2. countable, uncountable An 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.
3. countable, uncountable The study and prediction of possible futures.

   Similar: futurology

4. Judaism, countable, uncountable The Jewish expectation of the messiah in the future.
5. countable, uncountable Eschatological interpretations associating some Biblical prophecies with future events yet to be fulfilled, including the Second Coming.