fiction
nouncommon in dialogue
- //ˈfɪkʃən//
- /[ˈfɪkʃən] ~ [ˈfɪkʃn̩]/
Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
noun
- 1
Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
I am a great reader of fiction.
the fiction section of the library
- 2
A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead); an untrue belief.
The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.
separate the fact from the fiction
[…] in view of the facts—and some fictions—recently circulated in this country about the general performance of high-powered diesel-hydraulics of B.R., […].
- 3
A legal fiction.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *dʰinéǵʰti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction From Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion (“dissimulation, ruse, invention”), from Latin fictiō (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”), from fingō (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”). Displaced native Old English lēasspell (literally “false story”); see feign, feint, figment.
Forms
- plural
- fictions
fiction · Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
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