Meanings
plural fictionalizations · alternative fictionalisation
- countableuncountableThe act of fictionalizing.
Remembering is an act of re-creation and therefore subject to distortion and fictionalization: 'real' memories become tales, and tales become 'memories'.
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 204
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSomething fictionalized.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction
nounwriting in a fictional form
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeyǵʰ-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰinéǵʰti
- Proto-Italic*θingō
- Proto-Italic*fingō
- Latinfingō
- Latinfictiō
- Old Frenchficcion
- Middle Englishficcioun
- Englishfiction
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishfictional
- Englishfictionalize
- Englishfictionalization
From fictionalize + -ation.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
fictionalization. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fictionalization
“fictionalization.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fictionalization. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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