futurism

Noun

futurism (countable and uncountable, plural futurisms)

1. 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. […1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Futurists”, in Alarms and Discursions
2. The study and prediction of possible futures.

   Synonyms:

   futurology

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