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Futurism Moderate

Origin: Greek suffix -ism

Futurism has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age

2

the position that the meaning of life should be sought in the future

3

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.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
artistic movement position

Origin

Futurism comes from combining the word future with the suffix -ism. It originally referred to a movement focused on the future.

Rhyming Words
ism oism jism wuism agism meism prism yoism quism reism weism tuism ovism idism grism deism seism icism zoism owlism
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