science-fictionlike
English
editEtymology
editFrom science fiction + -like.
Adjective
editscience-fictionlike (comparative more science-fictionlike, superlative most science-fictionlike)
- Resembling science fiction.
- Synonyms: science-fictiony, science-fictionish
- 2016 August 1, Andrew Pollack, “Setting the Body’s ’Serial Killers’ Loose on Cancer”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-18:
- This radical, science-fictionlike therapy differs sharply from the more established type of immunotherapy, developed by other researchers. Those off-the-shelf drugs, known as checkpoint inhibitors, release a molecular brake on the immune system, freeing it to fight the cancer much as it fights infections by bacteria or viruses.