fiction

Meaning

Noun

• Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
• A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
• A legal fiction.

Related

Similar words

• fabrication
• figment

Opposite words

• documentary
• fact
• non-fiction
• truth

Narrower meaning words

• science fiction
• speculative fiction

Broader meaning words

• literary type

Origin

• 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.