fiction

Definition

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

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”).

Example Sentences

• "I am a great reader of fiction."
• "the fiction section of the library"
• "The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions."