futurology

English

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.

Noun

futurology (usually uncountable, plural futurologies)

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

Synonyms

• future studies

Derived terms

• futurologist

Translations

scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: futurologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 未來學 / 未来学 (zh) (wèiláixué)

• Czech: futurologie f
• Finnish: tulevaisuudentutkimus (fi), futurologia (fi)
• French: futurologie (fr) f
• Galician: futuroloxía f
• German: Futurologie (de) f, Futuristik f, Zukunftsforschung (de) f
• Greek: μελλοντολογία (el) f (mellontología)
• Hungarian: jövőkutatás (hu), futurológia (hu)
• Icelandic: framtíðarfræði f
• Japanese: 未来学 (miraigaku)
• Kazakh: футурология (fuwtuwrologıya), болашақтану (bolašaqtanuw)
• Korean: 미래학(未來學) (miraehak)
• Polish: futurologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: futurologia (pt) f
• Russian: футуроло́гия (ru) f (futurológija)
• Spanish: futurología (es) f
• Swedish: framtidsstudier, futurologi (sv) c