Definitions for fiction

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fiction fic·tion

Spelling: [fik-shuh n]

IPA: /ˈfɪk ʃən/

Fiction is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in fiction (cfiinot).

Definitions for fiction

noun

1. the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, especially in prose form.
2. works of this class, as novels or short stories:
3. something feigned, invented, or imagined; a made-up story:
4. the act of feigning, inventing, or imagining.
5. an imaginary thing or event, postulated for the purposes of argument or explanation.
6. Law. an allegation that a fact exists that is known not to exist, made by authority of law to bring a case within the operation of a rule of law.

Origin of fiction

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin fictiōn- (stem of fictiō) a shaping, hence a feigning, fiction, equivalent to fict(us) molded (past participle of fingere) + -iōn- -io

Examples for fiction

At the height of the Soviet Union, the proletariat universally understood everything their government said was a work of fiction.

I vaunted my love for history, biography, the poets, but spoke lightly of fiction.

Nor, to the glory of human nature be it said, is this a fiction.

In the end, his account is an entertaining reminder that sometimes, the truth really is better than fiction.

While politics tend to migrate toward the poles, humanity—and fiction, at its best—huddles in between.

It has been raised from the rank of a fiction to the dignity of an obstacle.

Were you defining yourself as a fiction writer then, or did you already envision writing essays like the ones in The Unspeakable?

They hire other people to write their books for them, whether memoir or fiction.

Shall God's fiction, which is man's reality, fall short of man's fiction?

This I do not believe: it is part of the fiction of woman's superior morality.