Noun: fiction fik-shun
- A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
"The novel is a work of fiction set in a dystopian future"
- A deliberately false or improbable account
"His story about being abducted by aliens was pure fiction";
- fabrication, fable
- The creation of something in the mind
"His fiction transported readers to new worlds";
- invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design
Derived forms: fictions
Type of: creative thinking, creativeness, creativity, falsehood, falsity, literary composition, literary work, untruth
Encyclopedia: Fiction