fiction

Meaning of fiction

noun
  1. literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people.
  2. something that is invented or untrue.
    they were supposed to be keeping up the fiction that they were happily married

late Middle English (in the sense ‘invented statement’): via Old French from Latin fictio(n- ), from fingere ‘form, contrive’. Compare with feign and figment.

Information about fiction

Hyphenation of fiction

fic-tion

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • fiction is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

fiction synonyms

Meaning fabrication:

fabrication, fable

Meaning a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism:

novels

Meaning a part of a building comprising all the rooms that are on the same level:

stories

Meaning the action or process of narrating a story:

narration

Meaning a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love:

romance

Meaning something fabricated or made up:

invention

Meaning the way, direction, or position in which something lies:

lies

Meaning a lie, typically an unimportant one:

fibs

Meaning a mixture of various ingredients or elements:

concoction

Meaning a lie or false statement (often used euphemistically):

untruth

Meaning a lie:

falsehood

Meaning the faculty or activity of imagining impossible or improbable things:

fantasy

Meaning a superficial or transient feeling of liking or attraction:

fancy

Meaning an instance of a wrong or misinterpreted perception of a sensory experience:

illusion

Meaning a thing that is not what it is purported to be:

sham

Meaning spoken or written words that have no meaning or make no sense:

nonsense

Meaning stupid or untrue talk or writing; nonsense:

bullshit

Meaning coarse dust:

bulldust

fiction antonyms

Meaning a thing that is known or proved to be true:

fact

Meaning the quality or state of being true:

truth

Translation of fiction

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