Fiction
/ˈfɪk.ʃən/ noun
noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose. countable, uncountable
"I am a great reader of fiction."
- 2 a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact wordnet
- 3 A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead). countable, uncountable
"The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions."
- 4 a deliberately false or improbable account wordnet
- 5 A legal fiction. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"Reading science fiction sometimes does much to encourage a scientific view of the universe."
Etymology
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”).