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speculative fictions

speculative fictions is the plural of speculative fiction.

Meaning of speculative fiction

Noun

speculative fiction (countable and uncountable, plural speculative fictions)

  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.
    • There are at least two principal ways to write speculative fiction—write about people, or write about gadgets.1947, Robert A. Heinlein, On the Writing of Speculative Fiction
  2. (countable) A particular work belonging to this class.

Questions about speculative fictions

What is speculative fictions the plural of?
Speculative fictions is the plural of speculative fiction.

Words near speculative fictions in the dictionary

  1. speculative applications
  2. speculative damages
  3. speculative erotica
  4. speculative evolution
  5. speculative fiction
  6. speculative fictions
  7. Speculative Masonry
  8. speculative materialism
  9. speculative philosophies
  10. speculative philosophy
  11. speculative realism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: speculative fictions (page history and authors); speculative fiction (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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