fiction

Plural

fictions

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

   • I am a great reader of fiction.

2. 2.A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead); an untrue belief.

   • The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.
   • The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
   • The transitory objects of sense, and most romantic fictions of imagination, have more of their hearts, and more of their credit, than all the hopes and fears the Bible contains, or futurity suggests!

3. 3.A legal fiction.

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