What does scientifiction mean?
Scientifiction means (dated) Science fiction..
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/ˌsaɪ.ən.tɪˈfɪk.ʃən/ · noun
(dated) Science fiction..
1926, Hugo Gernsback, Amazing Stories, "A New Sort of Magazine" There is the usual fiction magazine, the love story and the sex-appeal type of magazine, the adventure type, and so on, but a magazine of "Scientifiction" is a pioneer in its field in America. By "scientifiction" I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story—a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision.
I am supposed to report Münchhaussen's^([sic]) doings; am supposed to be writing fiction, scientifiction, to be correct.
Lewis's novels are the scientifiction of a philosopher.
Use scientifiction when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Scientifiction means (dated) Science fiction..
Common synonyms include science fiction, sci-fi, SF.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1926, Hugo Gernsback, Amazing Stories, "A New Sort of Magazine" There is the usual fiction magazine, the love story and the sex-appeal type of magazine, the adventure type, and so on, but a magazine of "Scientifiction" is a pioneer in its field in America. By "scientifiction" I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story—a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision.
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