technetronic

adjective

tech·​ne·​tron·​ic ˌtek-nə-ˈträ-nik 

: shaped or influenced by the changes wrought by advances in technology and communications

our modern technetronic society

Word History

Etymology

techn(o)- + (el)e(c)tronic

Note: Word apparently introduced by the Polish-American political scientist and diplomat Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017), perhaps first in the December 23, 1967, issue of the New Republic. The source of the -e- as a linking vowel between techno- and electronic, rather than the expected -o- or -i-, is uncertain.

First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for technetronic

• anharmonic
• anionic
• avionic
• catatonic
• cationic
• chorionic
• cosmogonic
• diachronic
• diatonic
• electronic
• embryonic
• excitonic