Fiction
WordNet

noun


(1)   A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
(2)   A deliberately false or improbable account
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Etymology


From , accusative of < .

Noun



  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. Invention.
    The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.
 
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