fiction

fiction

literature consisting of imaginative stories and characters, as novels and short stories: Her book is a work of fiction.; the act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; fable, fantasy
Not to be confused with:faction – discord, disagreement, schism, split, friction; a group or clique within a larger group: A faction in the government wants to rewrite the Constitution.; dissension: a time of faction and strife

fic·tion

F0104000 (fĭk′shən)n.1. a. The category of literature, drama, film, or other creative work whose content is imagined and is not necessarily based on fact.b. Works in this category: the fiction of Virginia Woolf.c. A work within this category: the shorter fictions of Faulkner.2. a. Narrative, explanatory material, or belief that is not true or has been imagined or fabricated: The notion that he was at the scene of the crime is pure fiction.b. A narrative, explanation, or belief that may seem true but is false or fabricated: "Neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world" (Howard Zinn).3. Law A verbal contrivance that is in some sense inaccurate but that accomplishes a purpose, as in the treatment of husband and wife as one person or a corporation as an entity.

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[Middle English ficcioun, from Old French fiction, from Latin fictiō, fictiōn-, from fictus, past participle of fingere, to form; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots.]

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fic′tion·al adj.fic′tion·al′i·ty (-shə-năl′ĭ-tē) n.fic′tion·al·ly adv.

fiction

(ˈfɪkʃən) n1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) literary works invented by the imagination, such as novels or short stories2. an invented story or explanation; lie3. the act of inventing a story or explanation4. (Law) law something assumed to be true for the sake of convenience, though probably false[C14: from Latin fictiō a fashioning, hence something imaginary, from fingere to shape] ˈfictional adj ˈfictionally adv ˌfictionˈeer, ˈfictionist n

fic•tion

(ˈfɪk ʃən)

n. 1. the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, esp. in prose form. 2. works of this class, as novels or short stories. 3. something feigned, invented, or imagined, esp. a made-up story. 4. the act of feigning, inventing, or imagining. 5. an assumption that a fact exists, regardless of the truth of the matter, so that a legal principle can be applied on the basis of the existing facts. [1375–1425; < Latin fictiō action of shaping, feigning, fiction, derivative of fingere to shape] fic′tion•al, adj. fic′tion•al•ly, adv.

fiction

Literature, especially stories, based on invented character and incidents—though fiction may often be set against a background of real events and draw on real-life experience.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	fiction - a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on factliterary composition, literary work - imaginative or creative writingdystopia - a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terrornovel - an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a storyfantasy, phantasy - fiction with a large amount of imagination in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies"story - a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"utopia - a work of fiction describing a utopia
	2.	fiction - a deliberately false or improbable accountfable, fabricationfalsehood, untruth, falsity - a false statementcanard - a deliberately misleading fabrication

fiction

noun1. tale, story, novel, legend, myth, romance, fable, storytelling, narration, creative writing, work of imagination She is a writer of historical fiction.2. imagination, fancy, fantasy, creativity a story of truth or fiction3. lie, fancy, fantasy, invention, improvisation, fabrication, concoction, falsehood, untruth, porky (Brit. slang), pork pie (Brit. slang), urban myth, tall story, urban legend, cock and bull story (informal), figment of the imagination Total recycling is a fiction.Quotations
"'Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange;"
"Stranger than fiction" [Lord Byron Don Juan]
"Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer" [Frederic Raphael Contemporary Novelists]
"Literature is a luxury. Fiction is a necessity" [G.K. Chesterton The Defendant]

fiction

noun1. An illusory mental image:daydream, dream, fancy, fantasy, figment, illusion, phantasm, phantasma, reverie, vision.2. Any fictitious idea accepted as part of an ideology by an uncritical group; a received idea:creation, fantasy, figment, invention, myth.3. An untrue declaration:canard, cock-and-bull story, falsehood, falsity, fib, inveracity, lie, misrepresentation, misstatement, prevarication, story, tale, untruth.Informal: fish story, tall tale.Slang: whopper.4. A narrative not based on fact:fable, story.

Translations

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fiction

(ˈfikʃən) noun stories etc which tell of imagined, not real, characters and events (see also non-fiction). I prefer reading fiction to hearing about real events. 虛構小說 小说ˈfictional adjective 虛構的 小说的，虚构的 fictitious (fikˈtiʃəs) adjective1. not true. a fictitious account. 編造的 编造的2. not real or based on fact. All the characters in the book are fictitious. 虛構的 虚构的

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