fictionality


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

fictionality

(ˌfɪkʃəˈnælɪtɪ) nthe quality of being fictional