fiction
fic·tion
noun
1.
a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
2.
a deliberately false or improbable account
Origin
From Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion (“dissimulation, ruse, invention”), from Latin fictiō (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”), from fingō (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”).
Phrases
- airport fiction
- chat fiction
- design fiction
- encyclopedic fiction
- explanatory fiction
- faan fiction
- fact is stranger than fiction
- fan fiction
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