Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

scientific romance

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English

Syllables: sci-en-tific ro-mance
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Science fiction, especially its early form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Countable; Dated; Uncountable

noun

Science fiction written in a deliberately anachronistic style, as an homage to or a pastiche of early science fiction.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Among the younger men who were winning fame—with the surge and thunder that heralded the youth of the nineties—was Rudyard Kipling; the seething brain of H. G. Wells was boiling over into scientific romance; and old romance was brought to life by the charm of Anthony Hope."

Usage

Inflected Forms

scientific romances (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

edisonade Vernian Wellsian

Questions

What does scientific romance mean?: Science fiction, especially its early form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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