Telefuture

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A possible future arising from the use of telecommunications technology. rare

    "Because of the great uncertainty in future penetration of new services such as video-telephone and Cable TV, the penetrations varied between telefutures by in some cases as much as 100:1. The representative territories were then planned up to 2006, in accordance with each technological strategy, and each telefuture."

Example

More examples

"Because of the great uncertainty in future penetration of new services such as video-telephone and Cable TV, the penetrations varied between telefutures by in some cases as much as 100:1. The representative territories were then planned up to 2006, in accordance with each technological strategy, and each telefuture."

Etymology

From tele- + future.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.