futurology en · NOUN
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.
Meanings
- (uncountable, usually) The scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| futurologies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (24)
is framtíðarfræði (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · hu jövőkutatás (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · de Futuristik (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · pt futurologia (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · de Futurologie (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · ca futurologia (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · ja 未来学 (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · fi tulevaisuudentutkimus (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · ru футуроло́гия (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · cmn 未來學 /未来学 (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · sv futurologi (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · pl futurologia (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · es futurología (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · ko 미래학 (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · hu futurológia (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · gl futuroloxía (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · fi futurologia (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · cs futurologie (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · fr futurologie (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · kk болашақтану (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · de Zukunftsforschung (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · sv framtidsstudier (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · kk футурология (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society) · el μελλοντολογία (scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society)
wikipedia: Phylon · wikipedia: John H. Herz · wikipedia: Ossip K. Flechtheim