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10 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the study or prediction of future developments on the basis of existing conditions
originFrom 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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- gulfy 12
- urology 11
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