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English
Cover of Rocket to the Moon , a 1951 science fiction comic book.
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Etymology
From science + fiction ; apparently coined in 1851 by W. Wilson.
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈsaɪəns ˌfɪkʃən/
Audio (Southern England) (file )
Hyphenation: sci‧ence fic‧tion
Rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Noun
science fiction (usually uncountable , plural science fictions )
Fiction in which advanced technology or science is a key element.
Synonyms: ( dated ) scientific romance , ( dated ) scientifiction , sci-fi , SF , skiffy , stf
Hypernyms: imaginative fiction , non-mimetic fiction , SF/F/H , speculative fiction
Hyponyms: hard science fiction , proto-science fiction , soft science fiction
Coordinate terms: fantasy , horror
Some people consider motion pictures such as the Star Wars movies more as fantasies than science fiction .
( by extension ) Technology that, while theoretically possible, is not yet practical.
Despite decades of research, mass-market personal aircraft are still science fiction .
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Translations
fiction
Afrikaans: wetenskapfiksie (af)
Arabic: خَيَال عِلْمِيّ m ( ḵayāl ʕilmiyy )
Azerbaijani: elmi fantastika
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 ) , 科學虛構 / 科学虚构 ( kēxué xūgòu )
Dutch: sciencefiction (nl) m or f
Finnish: tieteiskirjallisuus (fi)
French: science-fiction (fr)
Galician: ciencia ficción (gl) f
Georgian: სამეცნიერო ფანტასტიკა ( samecniero panṭasṭiḳa )
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 , sci-fi (hu)
Icelandic: vísindaskáldskapur m
Irish: ficsean eolaíochta m
Italian: fantascienza (it) f
Japanese: SF (ja) ( esuefu ) , 空想科学小説 ( kūsō kagaku shōsetsu ) , サイエンスフィクション (ja) ( saiensu fikushon )
Kazakh: ғылыми фантастика ( ğylymi fantastika )
Korean: 과학소설(科學小說) (ko) ( gwahaksoseol ) , 사이언스 픽션 ( saieonseu piksyeon ) , 공상과학 소설(空想科學小說) ( gongsanggwahak soseol )
Kyrgyz: илимий фантастика ( ilimiy fantastika )
Latin: scientia ficticia f
Macedonian: научна фантастика f ( naučna fantastika )
Malay: fiksyen sains
Maori: pohewa pūtaiao
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: шинжлэх ухаан уран зөгнөл ( šinžlex uxaan uran zögnöl ) , шинжлэх ухааны хий бодол ( šinžlex uxaany xii bodol ) ( China )
Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠨᠵᠢᠯᠡᠬᠦ ᠤᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠤᠷᠠᠨ ᠵᠥᠩᠨᠡᠯ ( sinǰilekü uqaɣan uran ǰöŋnel ) , ᠰᠢᠨᠵᠢᠯᠡᠬᠦ ᠤᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠦ ᠬᠡᠢ ᠪᠣᠳᠤᠯ ( sinǰilekü uqaɣan-ü kei bodul )
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 )
Uzbek: ilmiy fantastika
Vietnamese: khoa học viễn tưởng (vi) , khoa học giả tưởng
Yiddish: פֿאַקטאַזיע f ( faktazye )
technology which is not yet practical
Further reading
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English science fiction .
Pronunciation
Noun
science fiction n (indeclinable , abbreviation s.f. or SF )
( literature ) science fiction ( genre of fiction )
Synonym: fantastyka naukowa
elementy science fiction ― science fiction elements
( colloquial ) something inconceivable , something incredible , something unbelievable
polityczne science fiction ― political science fiction
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 unbelievable . We don't know what world we live in. This is just something inconceivable,” says Ewa Nadel, president of the club whose player is Janowicz.
Adjective
science fiction (not comparable , no derived adverb )
( literature , postpositive , relational ) science fiction ( genre of fiction )
Synonym: fantastycznonaukowy
opowiadanie science fiction ― science fiction short story
( postpositive ) inconceivable , incredible , unbelievable
Further reading
Swedish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English science fiction .
Noun
science fiction
science fiction
Hennes favoritgenre var science fiction Her favorite genre was science fiction
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