fiction

== English == === 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”); see feign, feint, figment. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɪkʃən/, [ˈfɪkʃən] ~ [ˈfɪkʃn̩] Rhymes: -ɪkʃən Hyphenation: fic‧tion === Noun === fiction (countable and uncountable, plural fictions) (literature) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose. A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead); an untrue belief. (law) A legal fiction. ==== Synonyms ==== fabrication figment ==== Antonyms ==== documentary fact non-fiction truth ==== Hyponyms ==== science fiction speculative fiction ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Irish: ficsean → Scottish Gaelic: ficsean ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “fiction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “fiction”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “fiction”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. Raymond Williams (1983), “Fiction”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 134. == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin fictiōnem (accusative of fictiō). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fik.sjɔ̃/ === Noun === fiction f (plural fictions) fiction ==== Related terms ==== fictif science-fiction === Further reading === “fiction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012