English
technofantasy
From techno- + fantasy.
Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ- ‘to create, produce’
Proto-Indo-European *téḱ-sneh₂
Ancient Greek τέχνη ‘craft, skill, trade’
English techno-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- ‘to shine’
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Ancient Greek φαντασία ‘apparition’
Latin phantasia ‘imagination’
Old French fantasie
Middle English fantasie ‘the faculty of imagination’
English fantasy
Today it means
noun A fantasy involving the potential applications of modern technology; a technological utopian vision.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “technofantasy”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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