fiction

plural fictions

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

   I am a great reader of fiction.

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   the fiction section of the library

2. countableuncountableA verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead); an untrue belief.

   separate the fact from the fiction

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   The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.

   The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.

   […] in view of the facts—and some fictions—recently circulated in this country about the general performance of high-powered diesel-hydraulics of B.R., […].

   1963 June, G. Freeman Allen, “The success of diesel-hydraulics on the German Federal Railway”, in Modern Railways, page 390

   The transitory objects of sense, and most romantic fictions of imagination, have more of their hearts, and more of their credit, than all the hopes and fears the Bible contains, or futurity suggests!

   1801, Rev. John Moir, The Gospel of Jesus the Philosophy of Life. With an Appendix and Index, page 241

3. countableuncountablelawA legal fiction.