technoculture
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Culture as influenced by technology, especially computer technology and the Internet.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Beyond preservation, beyond reconstruction, the contemporary neopastoral signifies the naturalization of technoculture: not better than nature, not a return to nature, but culture that simply is nature."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ- Proto-Indo-European *téḱ-sneh₂der. Ancient Greek τέχνη (tékhnē) Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-) Ancient Greek τεχνο- (tekhno-)der. English techno- Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture English technoculture From techno- + culture.