literature, e.g. novels or short stories, describing imaginary people and events
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction — Philip Roth
something invented by the imagination; specif an invented story
the action of feigning or creating with the imagination
an assumption of a possibility as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth
a legal fiction
fictional adj
fictionality /-ʹnaliti/ noun
fictionally adv
fictionist noun
[Middle English ficcioun via Old Frenchfrom Latin fiction-, fictio act of fashioning, fiction, from fingere to shape, fashion, feign]