science fiction

See also: science-fiction, Science-fiction, Science-Fiction, and Sciencefiction

English

Cover of Rocket to the Moon, a 1951 science fiction comic book.

Alternative forms

• science-fiction

Etymology

From science + fiction; apparently coined in 1851 by W. Wilson.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪəns ˌfɪkʃən/
• Hyphenation: sci‧ence fic‧tion
• Rhymes: -ɪkʃən

Noun

science fiction (uncountable)

1. Fiction in which advanced technology or science is a key element.

   Some people consider motion pictures such as the Star Wars movies more as fantasies than science fiction.

2. Technology that, while theoretically possible, is not yet practical.

   Despite decades of research, mass-market personal aircraft are still science fiction.

Synonyms

• (fiction): scientific romance, scientifiction, sci-fi, SF, skiffy, stf

Antonyms

• science fact

Hypernyms

(fiction):

Hypernyms of science fiction

• imaginative fiction
• non-mimetic fiction
• SF/F/H
• speculative fiction

 

Hyponyms

(fiction):

Hyponyms of science fiction

• hard science fiction
• proto-science fiction
• soft science fiction

 

Coordinate terms

• (fiction): fantasy, horror

Translations

fiction

• Afrikaans: wetenskapfiksie (af)
• Arabic: خَيَال عِلْمِيّ m (ḵayāl ʕilmiyy)
• Bulgarian: научна фантастика f (naučna fantastika)
• Catalan: ciència-ficció f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 科學幻想／科学幻想 (zh) (kēxué huànxiǎng), 科学幻想 (zh) (kēxué huànxiǎng), 科幻 (zh) (kēhuàn)

• Finnish: tieteiskirjallisuus (fi)
• French: science-fiction (fr)
• Galician: ciencia ficción (gl) f
• German: Science-Fiction (de) f
• Greek: επιστημονική φαντασία f (epistimonikí fantasía)
• Hebrew: מַדָּע בִּדְיוֹנִי (he) m (madá bid'yóni)
• Hungarian: tudományos fantasztikum, tudományos-fantasztikus irodalom
• Irish: ficsean eolaíochta m
• Italian: fantascienza (it) f
• Japanese: SF (esuefu), 空想科学小説 (kūsō kagaku shōsetsu), サイエンスフィクション (saiensu fikushon)
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• Korean: 과학소설 (ko) (gwahak-soseol) (科學小說 (ko))
• Latin: scientia ficticia f
• Macedonian: научна фантастика f (naučna fantastika)
• Malay: fiksyen sains
• Occitan: sciéncia-ficcion f
• Polish: fantastyka naukowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: ficção científica (pt)
• Romanian: știință-ficțiune f, science-fiction (ro) n
• Russian: фанта́стика (ru) f (fantástika), нау́чная фанта́стика (ru) f (naúčnaja fantástika)
• Scottish Gaelic: ficsean saidheans m
• Slovak: vedecká fantastika f
• Slovene: znanstvena fantastika f
• Spanish: ciencia ficción (es) f
• Swahili: sayansi ya kubuniwa
• Tagalog: kathang-agham
• Thai: นวนิยายวิทยาศาสตร์
• Turkish: bilim kurgu (tr)
• Vietnamese: khoa học viễn tưởng (vi)

technology which is not yet practical

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 科學幻想／科学幻想 (zh) (kēxué huànxiǎng), 科学幻想 (zh) (kēxué huànxiǎng), 科幻 (zh) (kēhuàn)

• Finnish: tieteiskirjallisuus (fi)
• French: science-fiction (fr) f
• German: Science-Fiction (de) f
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• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: фанта́стика (ru) f (fantástika)
• Slovene: znanstvena fantastika f
• Turkish: bilim kurgu (tr)

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English science fiction.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): //ˈsa.jɛns ˈfik.ʂɨn//

Noun

science fiction n

1. science fiction (genre of fiction)
2. (colloquial) something unbelievable
   • 2013, Wprost, Łódź żyje Janowiczem. "To jakieś science fiction"

     - To dla nas jakieś science fiction. Nie wiemy, w jakim świecie żyjemy. To jest po prostu coś nieprawdopodobnego - mówi Ewa Nadel, prezes klubu, którego zawodnikiem jest Janowicz.

Declension

Indeclinable.