Meaning

2 senses
  1. (uncountable)A class of fiction involving fantastic, supernatural, or futuristic elements, including fantasy, horror, and science fiction, dealing with worlds, themes, and characters not part of everyday life.

    Fantastik, Phantastik

    фанта́стикаfantástika

    фанта́стикаfantástyka

  2. (countable)A particular work belonging to this class.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Some good inexpensive escapes would be to read speculative fiction or learn an extraordinary language to describe one's reality.

  2. I think that the sci-fi genre is more creative than the fantasy genre. Both are considered speculative fiction.

  3. I sometimes read speculative fiction in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Catalan, Esperanto, or Interlingua, aloud, to practice speaking.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
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Deutsch
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Forms

plural: speculative fictions

Synonyms

5 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms
mimetic fiction

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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