Meanings
- dateduncountableScience fiction.
Lewis's novels are the scientifiction of a philosopher.
1949, Chad Walsh, C. S. Lewis: Apostle to the Skeptics2 more examples
I am supposed to report Münchhaussen's^([sic]) doings; am supposed to be writing fiction, scientifiction, to be correct.
1916 January, Hugo Gernsback, Electrical Experimenter, page 4741926, 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.
Synonyms: science fiction, sci-fi, SF
Synonyms & antonyms
nounScience fiction.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*sek-?
- Proto-Indo-European*skey-
- Latinsciō
- Latinsciēns
- Latinscientia
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Proto-Italic*θakos
- Medieval Latinscientificus
- Middle Frenchscientifique
- Englishscientific
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeyǵʰ-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰinéǵʰti
- Proto-Italic*θingō
- Proto-Italic*fingō
- Latinfingō
- Latinfictiō
- Old Frenchficcion
- Middle Englishficcioun
- Englishfiction
- Englishscientifiction
Blend of scientific + fiction. Coined by Hugo Gernsback in 1916.
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scientifiction. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scientifiction
“scientifiction.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scientifiction. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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