Meanings
- uncountableFiction not based on reality; a class of fiction including but not necessarily limited to fantasy, horror and science fiction.
A Journal for Readers, Writers and Collectors of Imaginative Fiction
1947 February 28 – March 28, “Masthead”, in Fantasy Review, volume 1, number 1, page 22 more examples
Particular professors and sober Scotchmen may denounce as childish the desire for imaginative fiction.
1914 March 7, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, All-Story Weekly, LettersThe questions of whether Esperanto has any place in the science fiction field and whether there is any justification for the modification of the English language for the convenience of the imaginative fiction reader, seem both to be issues on which there can be little in the way of a compromise.
1936 December 28, Maurice K. Hanson, “Editorial”, in Novae Terrae, volume 1, number 9, page 3Synonyms: speculative fiction
Synonyms & antonyms
nounFiction not based on reality; a class of fiction including but not necessarily limited to fantasy, horror and science fiction.
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