Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.
(grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
(finance) A standardized, tradableagreement between two parties that one will sell and the other will buy a specific commodity at a specific later date and a specific price.
(computing) An object that retrieves the value of a promise.
“The future will be bright if you work hard today.”
“Steven always knew, from a young age, that his future would be in the film industry.”
“Based on the data available, what are your thoughts on the future of the company?”
futurism
An early 20th century avant-gardeartmovement focused on speed, the mechanical, and the modern, which took a deeply antagonistic attitude to traditional artistic conventions; (originated by F.T. Marinetti, among others).
(Christianity) Eschatological interpretations associating some Biblical prophecies with future events yet to be fulfilled, including the Second Coming.
“I doubt that many people remember the musings of a futurist who predicted twenty years ago that we'd be driving our cars through tunnel-like, shelf-lined supermarkets to pick out the goods we wanted.”
“Thus begins a panel discussion featuring two futurologists, an environmentalist, and a creationist.”
“Scotland's cites, the futurologists reckon, have reached a crest of the consumerist and cultural wave that carried their economies out of the post-industrial era.”
“In fact, the company he works for employs futurologists to predict what we'll all be doing in the years to come.”