Definition:Fiction

Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
I am a great reader of fiction.
(uncountable) Invention.
The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.
Contents

1 Synonyms
2 Antonyms
3 Derived terms
4 Related terms
5 Credits


Synonyms
fabrication
figment
Antonyms
fact
Derived terms
non-fiction
science fiction
speculative fiction
fiction section
Related terms
fictitious
fictional

Credits
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