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The scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
the study or prediction of future developments on the basis of existing conditions
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: futuristics
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick
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.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
futurologia
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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Chinese Mandarin:
未來學 /未来学
(wèiláixué)
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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Czech:
futurologie
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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Finnish:
tulevaisuudentutkimus
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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Finnish:
futurologia
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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French:
futurologie
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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Galician:
futuroloxía
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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German:
Futurologie
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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German:
Futuristik
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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German:
Zukunftsforschung
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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Greek:
μελλοντολογία
(mellontología)
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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Hungarian:
jövőkutatás
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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Hungarian:
futurológia
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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Icelandic:
framtíðarfræði
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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Japanese:
未来学
(miraigaku)
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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Kazakh:
футурология
(futurologiä)
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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Kazakh:
болашақтану
(bolaşaqtanu)
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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Korean:
미래학
(miraehak)
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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Polish:
futurologia
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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Portuguese:
futurologia
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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Russian:
футуроло́гия
(futurológija)
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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Spanish:
futurología
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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Swedish:
framtidsstudier
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
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Swedish:
futurologi
— scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
