futurescape

American  

[fyoo-cher-skayp] / ˈfju tʃərˌskeɪp /

noun

futurescapes plural

1. an imaginative portrayal of a future world, society, or particular environment, as in works of science fiction.

2. a potential state of affairs thought of as the likely outcome of a current course of action, series of events, etc.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• futurescapes
  plural

Example Sentences

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futurescape futurescapes

The thread of their on-again-off-again connection is never lost in the film’s pleasingly artisanal, jazz-scored futurescape, which meshes practical and digital effects under the sign of Douglas Adams as much as Adult Swim and anime.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

“For the Ride” is not exactly an optimistic book, since life as we know it in this futurescape is toast.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2020

This rush across Apple’s depopulated futurescape is interrupted by an Apple Watch notifying our hero that she had completed her activity goal for the day; she runs into a colleague who uses his to teleport.

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2018

Twenty kilometers outside the city of Nagoya in central Japan, on ground that was the Aichi Youth Park, a glittering futurescape has risen at the site of the 2005 World Exposition.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bookstore shelves sag under the weight of volumes quantifying what computers will do for our math, medicine and management, but The Second Self explores a broader futurescape.

From Time Magazine Archive

New car events are usually pretty cringe, full of pointless pyrotechnics, emotionless futurescapes, shameless pandering to “the youth,” or hapless CEO antics.

From The Verge ● Jul. 14, 2022

Together, their minor-keyed, dystopian futurescapes have come to dominate mid-teens hip-hop.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2015