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grief tech

grief tech noun: technology and services designed to help commemorate or simulate deceased loved ones.

Noun

grief tech (uncountable)

  1. Technology and services designed to help commemorate or simulate deceased loved ones.
    • This burgeoning field, sometimes called “grief tech”, promises services that will make death feel less painful by helping us to stay digitally connected with our loved ones.[2023 July 18, Aimee Pearcy, “‘It was as if my father were actually texting me’: grief in the age of AI”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    • Then there is the growing field of “grief tech,” aiming “to take the sting out of death,” as a Financial Times headline recently put it.2024 [2023], Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Vintage, →ISBN, page 60

Synonyms of grief tech

Forms of grief tech

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Questions about grief tech

What does grief tech mean?
Grief tech means technology and services designed to help commemorate or simulate deceased loved ones.
What part of speech is grief tech?
Grief tech is a noun.

Words near grief tech in the dictionary

  1. grief
  2. grief counselor
  3. grief counselors
  4. grief knot
  5. grief knots
  6. grief tech
  7. grief technology
  8. grief tourist
  9. grief tourists
  10. grief-some
  11. grief-stricken

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