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noun. The category of literature, drama, film, or other creative work whose content is imagined and is not necessarily based on fact.

noun. Works in this category.

noun. A work within this category.

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noun. Narrative, explanatory material, or belief that is not true or has been imagined or fabricated.

noun. A narrative, explanation, or belief that may seem true but is false or fabricated.

noun. A verbal contrivance that is in some sense inaccurate but that accomplishes a purpose, as in the treatment of husband and wife as one person or a corporation as an entity.

noun. The act of making or fashioning.

noun. The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; a false deduction or conclusion: as, to be misled by a mere fiction of the brain.

noun. That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; a feigned story; an account which is a product of mere imagination; a false statement.

noun. In literature: A prose work (not dramatic) of the imagination in narrative form; a story; a novel.

noun. Collectively, literature consisting of imaginative narration; story-telling.

noun. In a wide sense, not now current, any literary product of the imagination, whether in prose or verse, or in a narrative or dramatic form, or such works collectively.

noun. In law, the intentional assuming as a fact of what is not such (the truth of the matter not being considered), for the purpose of administering justice without contravening settled rules or making apparent exceptions; a legal device for reforming or extending the application of the law without appearing to alter the law itself.

noun. Synonyms Fabrication, figment, fable, untruth, falsehood.

noun. The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining.

noun. 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.

noun. Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.

noun. An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.

noun. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.

noun. Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.

noun. Invention.

noun. a deliberately false or improbable account

noun. a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

"Humans are also preoccupied by fantasy & fiction of all types, even especially? knowing that it is *fiction*, we do not have to hypothesize a platonic realm to explain that..."

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