futurist
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- noun
- /ˈfjuːtʃərɪst/
- Jargon
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futurista (escatología)
- The futurist discussed how the events described in the Book of Revelation might unfold in the future.
- Religious Futurists
- editor of THE FUTURIST
- Network of Religious Futurists
Examples
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As a futurist, she interprets biblical prophecies as forecasts of future occurrences.
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Among the creators of the Russian Futurist school (which has nothing more than the name in common with its homonyms in Western Europe), a slogan was current: "The word itself!" La parole comme telle; attention was turned to the means of expression, to the linguistic basis of poetry.
Academic text (2003) -
This is not a Futurist picture; it is, namely, a Dadaist picture, and indeed an excellent one.
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The closed futurists require us to believe that our possibilities are exhausted.
Academic text (2010) -
There are two other places in the innovation process where futurists can help innovators.
Academic text (2012) -
Perhaps Moments of Silence would best be described as a satire for futurists interested in string theory.
Blog text (15) -
This teardown of the new Thunderbolt wires gives me a kind of futurist vertigo.
Blog text (23) -
Duchamp's study of the body in motion smacked of the rival Futurists, and the title only made matters worse.
Blog text (15) -
Certain news tycoons, perhaps misled by the futurists of a decade or more ago, keep trying to reverse that trend.
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Many futurists believe that the prophecies in the Book of Revelation offer insights into coming events.
How Future-Oriented
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word futurist shares the same root future, from the Latin 'futurus' meaning 'what will be', and in religion it came to mean someone who reads predictions in the Book of Revelation as events that will still happen. So a futurist in theology believes those predictions point to the 'future'.