fiction
noun
[ ˈfɪkʃ(ə)n ]
• literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people.
Similar:
novels,
stories,
creative writing,
imaginative writing,
works of the imagination,
prose literature,
narration,
story telling,
romance,
fable,
• something that is invented or untrue.
• "they were supposed to be keeping up the fiction that they were happily married"
Similar:
fabrication,
invention,
lies,
fibs,
concoction,
trumped-up story,
fake news,
alternative fact,
untruth,
falsehood,
fantasy,
fancy,
illusion,
sham,
nonsense,
bullshit,
bulldust,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘invented statement’): via Old French from Latin fictio(n- ), from fingere ‘form, contrive’. Compare with feign and figment.
