science fiction

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 (usually uncountable, plural science fictions)

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.

   Synonyms: (dated) scientific romance, (dated) scientifiction, sci-fi, SF, skiffy, stf

   Coordinate terms: fantasy, horror

   Hypernyms: imaginative fiction, non-mimetic fiction, SF/F/H, speculative fiction

   Hyponyms: hard science fiction, proto-science fiction, soft science fiction

2. (by extension) Technology that, while theoretically possible, is not yet practical.

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

Antonyms

• science fact

Derived terms

• science fact
• science faction
• science-fictionish
• science-fictiony

Translations

fiction

Afrikaans: wetenskapfiksie (af) Arabic: خَيَال عِلْمِيّ‎ m (ḵayāl ʿilmiyy) Belarusian: навуко́вая фанта́стыка f (navukóvaja fantástyka), фанта́стыка f (fantástyka) Bulgarian: нау́чна фанта́стика f (naúčna fantástika) Catalan: ciència-ficció f Chinese: Mandarin: 科學幻想／科学幻想 (zh) (kēxué huànxiǎng), 科幻 (zh) (kēhuàn) Dutch: sciencefiction (nl) m or f Finnish: tieteiskirjallisuus (fi) French: science-fiction (fr) Galician: ciencia ficción (gl) f German: Science-Fiction (de) f Greek: επιστημονική φαντασία (el) f (epistimonikí fantasía) Hebrew: מַדָּע בִּדְיוֹנִי‎ (he) m (madá bid'yóni) Hungarian: tudományos fantasztikum, tudományos-fantasztikus irodalom Icelandic: vísindaskáldskapur m 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) Korean: 과학소설(科學小說) (ko) (gwahaksoseol), 사이언스 픽션 (saieonseu piksyeon), 공상과학 소설(空想科學小說) (gongsanggwahak soseol) Latin: scientia ficticia f Macedonian: научна фантастика f (naučna fantastika) Malay: fiksyen sains Occitan: sciéncia-ficcion f Persian: علمی–تخیلی‎ ('elmi-taxayyoli) Polish: fantastyka naukowa (pl) f Portuguese: ficção científica (pt) f 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 Swedish: science fiction (sv) Tagalog: kathang-agham Tajik: илмӣ-тахайюлӣ (ilmī-taxayyulī) Thai: นวนิยายวิทยาศาสตร์ Turkish: bilim kurgu (tr) Ukrainian: науко́ва фанта́стика f (naukóva fantástyka), фанта́стика f (fantástyka) Vietnamese: khoa học viễn tưởng (vi), khoa học giả tưởng Yiddish: פֿאַקטאַזיע‎ f (faktazye)

technology which is not yet practical

Chinese: Mandarin: 科學幻想／科学幻想 (zh) (kēxué huànxiǎng), 科幻 (zh) (kēhuàn) Dutch: sciencefiction (nl) m or f Finnish: tieteiskirjallisuus (fi) French: science-fiction (fr) f German: Science-Fiction (de) f, Zukunftsmusik (de) f Portuguese: ficção científica (pt) f Russian: фанта́стика (ru) f (fantástika) Slovene: znanstvena fantastika f Turkish: bilim kurgu (tr)

Further reading

• science fiction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English science fiction.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.jɛns fikʂn/

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Noun

science fiction n (indeclinable)

1. (literature) science fiction (genre of fiction)

   Synonym: fantastyka naukowa

2. (colloquial) something unbelievable
   • 2013, “Łódź żyje Janowiczem. "To jakieś science fiction"”, in Wprost‎:

     - 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.

     "This is something incredible. We don't know what world we live in. This is just something improbable," Ewa Nadel says, the president of the club, who's player is Janowicz.

Further reading

• science fiction in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• science fiction in Polish dictionaries at PWN