/fyooh"cheuh riz'euhm/ , n.
1. ( sometimes cap. ) 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 cap. ) 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.
[ 1905-10; futurismo. See FUTURE, -ISM ]