Fiction
['fɪkʃ(ə)n] or ['fɪkʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact.
Typist: Nigel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.
(n.) An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.
(n.) Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Invention, fable.[2]. Novel, romance, work of fiction, feigned story.[3]. Fabrication, figment, falsehood, lie.[4]. Fictitious literature.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Invention, fabrication, creation, figment, fable, falsehood, romance, myth
ANT:Fact, truth, verity, reality
Typist: Randall
Definition
n. a feigned or false story: a falsehood: romance: the novel story-telling as a branch of literature: a supposition of law that a thing is true which is either certainly not true or at least is as probably false as true.—adj. Fic′tional.—n. Fic′tionist a writer of fiction.—adj. Ficti′tious imaginary: not real: forged.—adv. Ficti′tiously.—adj. Fic′tive fictitious imaginative.—n. Fic′tor one who makes images of clay &c.
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Examples
- Before that time we sit listening to a tale, a marvellous fiction, delightful sometimes, and sad sometimes, almost always unreal. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Who talks of the marvels of fiction? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There was a fiction that Mr. Wopsle examined the scholars once a quarter. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- A bas la France, la Fiction et les Faquins! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Besides Mr. Bounderby's gold spoon which was generally received in Coketown, another prevalent fiction was very popular there. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- They entirely forget that fiction is but a reflection of real life, and that man can imagine nothing, but merely reproduces what he sees around him. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- There is sometimes an odd disposition in this country to dispute as improbable in fiction, what are the commonest experiences in fact. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Ideas always represent the Objects or impressions, from which they are derived, and can never without a fiction represent or be applied to any other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This is no fiction. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- This family fiction was the family assertion of itself against her services. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- His old housekeeper is the first to understand that he is striving to uphold the fiction with himself that it is not growing late. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But this notion of mind in general is a fiction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Such a fiction is suicidal, ruinous, impious. Plato. The Republic.
- The relation of good men to their governments is so peculiar, that in order to defend them I must take an illustration from the world of fiction. Plato. The Republic.
- A grisly little fiction concerning her lovers is Lady Tippins's point. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The war of the rebellion was no exception to this rule, and the story of the apple tree is one of those fictions based on a slight foundation of fact. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Another of the popular fictions of Coketown, which some pains had been taken to disseminate—and which some people really believed. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- This, again, was among the fictions of Coketown. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- For a moment I could yield to the creative power of the imagination, and for a moment was soothed by the sublime fictions it presented to me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Men only began to suspect that they were fictions when they recognised them to be immoral. Plato. The Republic.
- There is something weak and imperfect amidst all that seeming vehemence of thought and sentiment, which attends the fictions of poetry. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It is not my purpose, in this record, though in all other essentials it is my written memory, to pursue the history of my own fictions. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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