futurism

[ fyoo-chuh-riz-uhm ]

noun

1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of the fine arts developed originally by a group of Italian artists about 1910 in which forms derived chiefly from cubism were used to represent rapid movement and dynamic motion.
2. (often initial capital letter) a style of art, literature, music, etc., and a theory of art and life in which violence, power, speed, mechanization or machines, and hostility to the past or to traditional forms of expression were advocated or portrayed.

futurism

/ ˈfjuːtʃəˌrɪzəm /

noun

1. an artistic movement that arose in Italy in 1909 to replace traditional aesthetic values with the characteristics of the machine age

Derived Forms

• ˈfuturist, nounadjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of futurism¹

From the Italian word futurismo, dating back to 1905–10. See future, -ism

Example Sentences

The zeitgeist-defining moment came last year when The Verge and Futurism busted multi-tentacled media vampire Red Ventures in a ripping series of stories.

From Salon

Futurism reports that AdVon, a “content solutions” company which published scores of articles by fictional writers in Sports Illustrated, ultimately leading to its publisher losing the rights to the name Sports Illustrated, placed work in Hollywood Life and Us Weekly, as well as the Miami Herald and Los Angeles Times.

From Salon

Screenshots from AdVon’s content management system acquired by Futurism suggest that the company has published over 90,000 articles for hundreds of publications.

From Salon

“Ways people do that are with materials, characters and concepts. We have people doing Indigenous futurism. We have people working with only trash art, reconstructing everyday items. We have people making completely different planets that have their own interesting logic. The umbrella feels quite broad, but that’s really what I’m trying to find. I’m looking for people who have a really defined sense of what they do.”

From Los Angeles Times

In all that time, the Biennale has weathered seismic social shifts: the rise and fall of European fascism, the beginning and end of the Cold War, and countless other conflicts, as well as the advent of Futurism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.

From New York Times

Related Words

• sci-fi
• SF