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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: art, arts
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noun
The study and prediction of possible futures.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: futurology
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noun
The Jewish expectation of the messiah in the future.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Judaism, countable, uncountable
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noun
Eschatological interpretations associating some Biblical prophecies with future events yet to be fulfilled, including the Second Coming.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: Christianity
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noun
the position that the meaning of life should be sought in the future
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: position, view, perspective
noun
an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: artistic movement, art movement
History
Etymology tree English future Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō 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.
Across languages
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