What does fiction mean?
Definitions for fiction
ˈfɪk ʃənfic·tion
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word fiction.
Princeton's WordNet
fictionnoun
a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
fabrication, fiction, fablenoun
a deliberately false or improbable account
Wiktionary
fictionnoun
Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
fictionnoun
Invention.
The butler's account of the crime was pure fiction.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Fictionnoun
Etymology: fictio, Latin; fiction, French.
If the presence of God in the image, by a mere fiction of the mind, be a sufficient ground to worship that image, is not God’s real presence in every creature a far better ground to worship it? Edward Stillingfleet.
Fiction is of the essence of poetry, as well as of painting: there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions, which are not real; and in the other of a true story by a fiction. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.
If through mine ears pierce any consolations,
By wise discourse, sweet tunes, or poets fictions;
If ought I cease these hideous exclamations,
While that my soul, she, she lives in affliction. Philip Sidney.So also was the fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon, taken from the serpent, which tempted Evah. Walter Raleigh.
Wikipedia
Fiction
Fiction generally is a narrative form, in any medium, consisting of people, events, or places that are imaginary—in other words, not based strictly on history or fact. It also commonly refers, more narrowly, to written narratives in prose and often specifically novels. In film, it generally corresponds to narrative film in opposition to documentary.
ChatGPT
fiction
Fiction is a type of literary work that originates from the imagination of the author and is not based on fact or reality. It can include novels, short stories, plays, and other narrative forms. This genre utilizes creative writing and storytelling to craft characters, plots, themes, and settings that may be inspired by real-world elements but are not intended to portray actual events or characters.
Webster Dictionary
Fictionnoun
the act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind
Fictionnoun
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
Fictionnoun
fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances
Fictionnoun
an assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth
Fictionnoun
any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue
Wikidata
Fiction
Fiction is the form of any work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary and theoretical—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical, cinematic, or musical work. Fiction contrasts with non-fiction, which deals exclusively with factual events, descriptions, observations, etc..
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Fiction
fik′shun, n. a feigned or false story: a falsehood: romance: the novel, story-telling as a branch of literature: a supposition of law that a thing is true, which is either certainly not true, or at least is as probably false as true.—adj. Fic′tional.—n. Fic′tionist, a writer of fiction.—adj. Ficti′tious, imaginary: not real: forged.—adv. Ficti′tiously.—adj. Fic′tive, fictitious, imaginative.—n. Fic′tor, one who makes images of clay, &c. [Fr.,—L. fiction-em—fictus, pa.p. of fingĕre.]
The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
FICTION
The Constitutional fiat that "all men are created equal."
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'fiction' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4544
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'fiction' in Nouns Frequency: #1778
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fiction in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fiction in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of fiction in a Sentence
It gets me away from the world I’m trying to turn into fiction, if that makes any sense.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.
But of course this is not in order to find a place where we could go. This is still science fiction.
We always expected that while Hillary Clinton focused on helping everyday Americans get ahead, the Republicans would focus on attacks rather than ideas, it appears that this book is being used to aid this coordinated attack strategy, twisting previously known facts into absurd conspiracy theories. It will not be the first work of partisan-fueled fiction about the Clintons' record, and we know it will not be the last.
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- خيال, روايةArabic
- измислица, белетристикаBulgarian
- ficcióCatalan, Valencian
- fikce, beletrieCzech
- fiktion, fantasi, opspind, skønlitteraturDanish
- Belletristik, FiktionGerman
- fikcioEsperanto
- ficciónSpanish
- داستانPersian
- fiktio, sepite, taruFinnish
- fictionFrench
- ficsean, finscéalIrish
- uirsgeul, ficseanScottish Gaelic
- उपन्यासHindi
- skáldskapurIcelandic
- ספרות בדיוניתHebrew
- フィクションJapanese
- pakimaero, pakiwaitaraMāori
- белетристика, измислицаMacedonian
- cerita rekaan, cereka, fiksyen, fiksiMalay
- fictieDutch
- fiction, fiksjonNorwegian
- invencionice, invenção, fingimento, ficcionismo, ficção, literaturaPortuguese
- фикция, беллетристика, вымысел, художественная литература, выдумкаRussian
- fiktionSwedish
- gawa-gawa, kathang-isipTagalog
- 小说Chinese
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