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futurology

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.89 in modern English

Syllables
fu-tur-ol-o-gy
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society

Uncountable

Etymology

From future + -ology. Attested once in 1934 as the title of play, Futureology; in later use, after German Futurologie, suggested in a 1942 letter to the American scholar John H. Herz by the German political scientist Ossip K. Flechtheim, who used futurology in a 1943 Phylon article.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

futurologies (plural)

Derived Forms

futurologist

Synonyms

future studies futuristics

Questions

What does futurology mean?
The scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
Where does futurology come from?
It is traced to German.

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