Fiction
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Origin
From Old French ficcion ("dissimulation, ruse, invention"), from Latin fictionem, accusative of fictio ("a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction"), from fingere ("to form, mold, shape, devise, feign").
Full definition of fiction
Noun
fiction
(plural fictions)- Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.I am a great reader of fiction.
- (uncountable) Invention.The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.