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SCIENCE FICTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
