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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

futurista

Pronunciation / Transliteration: futurista

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Futurist/ˈfjuː.tʃə.rɪst/
nounadjectiveCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #14500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Il futurista analizza le tendenze future della società."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person who studies or predicts the future, especially in relation to technology and societal trends.

    "As a futurist, she often speaks at conferences about the impact of artificial intelligence on daily life."
  2. 2

    An advocate of the Futurism movement in art and literature, which sought to capture the energy and dynamism of modern technology.

    "The futurist painters aimed to depict movement and speed in their works."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English 'future' (from Old French 'futur', from Latin 'futurus', meaning 'about to be'), combined with the agent suffix '-ist'. The term gained prominent cultural currency in the early 20th century with the emergence of the Italian Futurist art and literature movement led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

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