Fiction

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1 English 1.1 Noun 1.2 Related terms 1.3 Synonyms 1.4 Antonyms 1.5 Translations 1.6 See also

English

Noun

fiction (plural fictions)

1. Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts
   • usually written as prose
   • The company's accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
   • I am a great reader of fiction.
2. (uncountable) Invention.
   • The butler's account of the crime was pure fiction.

Related terms

• fact or fiction
• ficticious
• fictional
• non-fiction
• science fiction
• speculative fiction
• fiction section

Synonyms

• fabrication
• figment

Antonyms

• fact

Translations

• Catalan: ficció f
• Danish: fiktion c (1); skønlitteratur c (2); fantasi c (3)
• Dutch: fictie
• Esperanto: fikcio
• Finnish: sepite (1, 3), taru (1, 3), fiktio (1, 2, 3)
• French: fiction
• Spanish: ficción f

See also