fiction
fic-tion · noun
Definitions
noun
- 1.
Literature in the form of prose that describes imaginary events and people.
- 2.
Something that is invented or untrue; a fabrication.
- 3.
A literary genre or category based on imaginative creation.
Forms
plural: fictions
Phrases & expressions
- •science fiction — fiction based on imagined scientific advances
- •pulp fiction — cheap, sensational fiction
- •stranger than fiction — reality more surprising than imagination
- •legal fiction — an assumption accepted as true for legal purposes
Related words
Etymology
From Latin fictio ("a making, fashioning"), from fictus, past participle of fingere ("to shape, form, devise"). Entered English in the 14th century through Old French.