futurology
pronunciation
How to pronounce futurology in British English:
UK [ˌfjuːtʃəˈrɒlədʒi]
How to pronounce futurology in American English:
US [ˌfjuːtʃəˈrɑːlədʒi]
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- Noun:
- the study or prediction of future developments on the basis of existing conditions
Word Origin
- futurology (n.)
- 1946 (A. Huxley), from future (n.) + -ology.
Example
- 1. Marxist 's dialectics is the methodology of the futurology .
- 2. Most practitioners reject the idea of a " new science " and cavil even at the word futurology .
- 3. There is much guesswork involved in futurology , and studies like hsbc 's are invariably rosier the further out they look .
- 4. Therefore this research finally depends on its result to propose that the related suggestion and the futurology direction will supply the practical realm and the field reference .
- 5. And will continue forever the campus plan and the hypothesized solid boundary to the national elementary school presents and the futurology direction , will propose the concrete proposal .