futurism

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Definition

noun an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age
noun the position that the meaning of life should be sought in the future

From future + -ism.

Paul Post—that painter a little in advance of Futurism; and she was impatient with her father because his eyebrows would go up, and because he had heard of neither. — The Forsyte Saga - Complete, John Galsworthy
Its designs, however, were far from modern in atmosphere and suggestion; for, although the vagaries of cubism and futurism are many and wild, they do not often reproduce that cryptic regularity which lurks in prehistoric writing. — The call of Cthulhu, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
Curious lore in strange things old and new was much sought after at this period, when Cubism and Futurism governed design, not only in dress and stage scenery, but in Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture; and dances known in the voodoo-houses of East Africa and the West Indies, and the hells of Central America and the Argentine were seen in the ball-rooms as in the brothels, of Paris and London, Petrograd and Brussels, Vienna, New York, and Berlin. — That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day, Richard Dehan

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