| Definitions of 'fiction' |
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1. (noun) fiction
a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
2. (noun) fabrication, fiction, fable
a deliberately false or improbable account
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| Definitions of 'fiction' |
Webster 1913 Dictionary |
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1. (noun) fiction
the act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind
2. (noun) fiction
that which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality
3. (noun) fiction
fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances
4. (noun) fiction
an assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth
5. (noun) fiction
any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue
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