SCIENCE FICTION

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Meaning:

Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("science fiction" is a kind of...):

fantasy; phantasy (fiction with a large amount of imagination in it)

Domain member category:

teleportation (a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another)

teleport (transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "science fiction"):

cyberpunk (a genre of fast-paced science fiction involving oppressive futuristic computerized societies)