Fiction

Noun

 * 1) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
 * 2)  Invention.

Adjectives for Fiction
luxuriant; native; sensational; convenient; evasive; romantic; serious; bold; mythological; improbable; extravagant; picturesque; conventional; monstrous; short-lived; distinguished; unmitigated; frothy; introspective: current; sentimental; contemporary.

Verbs for Fiction
east away —; compose —; condemn —; consume —; criticize —; desire —; devise —; distinguish from —; embroider —; prefer—; produce —; reject —; relate —; select—; steep in —; turn into —; — charms; — confuses; — copies; —delights; — diverts; — enchants; — informs; — influen¬ces; — instructs; — interests; — pleases; — poisons; — transports; — unwinds.

Synonyms for Fiction
fabrication, figment, invention, myth, fable, story, creation, romance, novel, legend, epic, parable, allegory, falsehood, untruth, imagination, fancy.

Antonyms for Fiction
fact, history, reality, certainty, sureness, truth, verity, literalness, truthfulness, genuineness, authenticity, actuality, incident, occurrence, happening, event, circumstance, biography.

Derived terms

 * non-fiction
 * science fiction
 * speculative fiction
 * fiction section

Related terms

 * fictitious
 * fictional

Thesaurus
mystery, mystery story, myth, mythology, mythos, narrative, nonfiction, nursery tale, opus, original, paper, parable, parchment, penscript, phantasm, phantom, piece, piece of writing, pious fiction, play, poem, prevarication, printed matter, printout, production, reading matter, recension, romance, science fiction, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, shocker, sick fancy, slight stretching, space fiction, space opera, story, suspense story, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, the written word, thick-coming fancies, thriller, transcript, transcription, trip, trumped-up story, typescript, untruth, vapor, version, vision, whim, whimsy, white lie, whodunit, wildest dreams, work, work of fiction, writing, yarn, Western, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, allegory, anecdote, apologue, apparition, article, autograph, bedtime story, blague, brainchild, bubble, canard, chimera, cock-and-bull story, composition, computer printout, concoction, copy, delirium, detective story, document, draft, edited version, eidolon, engrossment, essay, exaggeration, extravaganza, fable, fabliau, fabrication, fair copy, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, farfetched story, farrago, fib, figment, final draft, finished version, first draft, fish story, flam, flimflam, flimsy, folk story, folktale, forgery, gest, ghost story, half-truth, hallucination, holograph, horse opera, idle fancy, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, insubstantial image, invention, legal fiction, legend, letter, lie, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, little white lie, love story, lucubration, maggot, make-believe, manuscript, matter, mendacity, misrepresentation,

Etymology
From fictionem:, accusative of fictio: < fingere:.

Translations

 * Catalan: ficció
 * Czech:
 * Danish: fiktion, skønlitteratur
 * Dutch: fictie
 * Esperanto:
 * Filipino:
 * Finnish:


 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: белетристика
 * Norwegian: fiksjon
 * Portuguese: de ficção, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ficsean
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: kathang-isip


 * Catalan: ficció
 * Czech:
 * Danish: fantasi, opspind
 * Dutch: fictie
 * Filipino:


 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: fiction
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Tagalog:

Etymology
From fictionem (nominative of fictio).

Noun

 * 1) fiction

Related terms

 * fictif
 * science-fiction