fiction
fiction Lexical Profile
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• noun
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels and short stories, that describes imaginary events and people.
"She prefers reading science fiction and fantasy over historical biographies."
Something that is invented, imagined, or untrue; a deliberate falsehood.
"The suspect's elaborate alibi turned out to be nothing more than a carefully constructed fiction."
An assumption or construct generally accepted as true for the sake of convenience or functional practice, particularly in legal contexts.
"A corporation is treated as a single person under the law only by virtue of a legal fiction."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English ficcioun, borrowed via Old French from Latin fictio ('a shaping, feigning, or inventing'), derived from the past participle of fingere ('to shape, form, or devise').
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