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)

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.
Technology that, while theoretically possible, is not yet practical.
Despite decades of research, mass-market personal aircraft are still science fiction.

Abbreviations

sci-fi
SF

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

science fact

Hypernyms

(fiction):

Hypernyms of science fiction

Hyponyms

(fiction):

Hyponyms of science fiction

Coordinate terms

(fiction): fantasy, horror

Translations

fiction

Afrikaans: wetenskapfiksie (af)
Arabic: خَيَال عِلْمِيّ‎ m (ḵayāl ʿilmiyy)
Bulgarian: научна фантастика f (naučna fantastika)
Catalan: ciència-ficció f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 科學幻想 (zh), 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 (el) f (epistimonikí fantasía)
Hebrew: מַדָּע בִּדְיוֹנִי‎ (he) m (madá bid'yóni)
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 (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 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 (zh), 科学幻想 (zh) (kēxué huànxiǎng), 科幻 (zh) (kēhuàn)
Finnish: tieteiskirjallisuus (fi)
French: science-fiction (fr) f
German: Science-Fiction (de) f

Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
Russian: фанта́стика (ru) f (fantástika)
Slovene: znanstvena fantastika f
Turkish: bilim kurgu (tr)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English science fiction.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsa.jɛns ˈfʲik.ʂɨn/

Noun

science fiction n

science fiction (genre of fiction)
(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.

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