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Definition of Fiction

Fiction The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind. 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. Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances. An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. Related Definitions: Act, All, An, And, Any, Arriving, As, Assumption, At, By, Comprehensively, Convenience, Deceive, Disputed, Especially, Fabrication, Fact, Feigned, Feigning, Fiction, Fictitious, For, Hence, Imagination, Imagined, Imagining, In, Invented, Inventing, Irrespective, Is, Issue, Like, Literature, Made, Mere, Mind, More, Not, Of, Opposed, Or, Oral, Order, Over, Passing, Possible, Question, Rapidly, Reality, Really, Specifically, Story, That, The, Thing, To, Told, Truth, What, Whether, Which, Written

Fiction Quotations I don't read Science Fiction. Brent Spiner Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. Mark Twain Science fiction still is an idea genre. Sheri S. Tepper Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. Oscar Wilde

Fiction Translations fiction in Dutch is fictie, verdichtsel, verbeelding fiction in Finnish is kuvitelma fiction in French is invention, fiction fiction in German is Fiktion, Annahme {f} fiction in Italian is invenzione, ipotesi

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