"fiction" Definition

Definitions for the word "fiction" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
1 non-factual literature, esp. Novels. 2 invented idea, thing, etc. 3 generally accepted falsehood (polite fiction). fictional adj. Fictionalize v. (also -ise) (-zing or -sing). [latin: related to *feign]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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