Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

collapsology

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: col-lap-sol-o-gy
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The transdisciplinary study of the collapse of industrial civilization, and what might succeed it.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"This will be the true purpose of collapsology, which we define as the transdisciplinary study of the collapse of our industrial civilization, and what might succeed it, based on the two cognitive modes of reason and intuition and on recognized scientific studies."
"For the authors of the Jean Jaurès study, the political scientist Jérôme Fourquet and the pollster Jean-Philippe Dubrulle, collapsology is driven at least in part by economic factors."
"Collapsology has been likened to the cultural equivalent of an advance directive in the medical world, whereby you specify what actions should be taken for your health if you are no longer able to make decisions[…]"

Etymology

From French collapsologie, collapse + -ology.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: collapsologie

Usage

Uncountable

Derived Forms

collapsologist

Questions

What does collapsology mean?: The transdisciplinary study of the collapse of industrial civilization, and what might succeed it.
Where does collapsology come from?: It is traced to French.

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