English Explanatory Dictionary

fiction

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

/ˈfɪkʃən/ [ˈfɪkʃən] ~ [ˈfɪkʃn̩] en-us-fiction.ogg

Word forms

fiction fictions

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *dʰi-né-ǵʰ-ti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction 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”); see feign, feint, figment.

Synonyms

fabrication figment

Antonyms

documentary fact non-fiction truth

Derived words

airport fiction autobiografiction autofiction chat fiction cli-fi cyberfiction design fiction docufiction eco-fiction ecofiction encyclopedic fiction explanatory fiction faan fiction faction fact is stranger than fiction fan-fiction fan fiction fictional fictionary fictioneer fictionise fictionish fictionist fictionization fictionize fictionkin fictionmaking fictionmonger fictiony fictitious fictomercial flash fiction genre fiction geofiction hard science fiction historical fiction hyperfiction imaginative fiction interactive fiction literary fiction macro-fiction manfiction message fiction metafiction microfiction micro-fiction non-fiction nonfiction non-mimetic fiction paradox of fiction petrofiction pious fiction polite fiction proto-science fiction pseudofiction pulp fiction real person fiction scientifiction slash fiction soft science fiction
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