fiction
Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
Example
“I am a great reader of fiction.”
Other meanings
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.”
A legal fiction.
Antonyms
- fact
- non-fiction
- truth
Related words
- chat fiction
- design fiction
- fictitious
- fictional
- message fiction
- non-fiction
- airport fiction
- eco-fiction
- encyclopedic fiction
- explanatory fiction
- faan fiction
- fact is stranger than fiction
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "fictiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “fiction” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.