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Fiction

//ˈfɪk.ʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    a deliberately false or improbable account wordnet
  5. 5
    A legal fiction. countable, uncountable

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”).

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