Definition of FICTION

fiction

Meanings

Plural: fictions

Noun

  • a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
  • a deliberately false or improbable account
  • Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
  • A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
  • A legal fiction.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion (“dissimulation, ruse, invention”), from Latin fictiō (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”), from fingō (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”). Displaced native Old English lēasspell (literally “false story”).

Antonyms

documentary, fact, non-fiction, truth

Scrabble Score: 12

fiction is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
fiction is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fiction is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

fiction is a valid Words With Friends word