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fiction en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• [ˈfɪkʃən] ~ [ˈfɪkʃn̩]
• /ˈfɪkʃən/
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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *dʰinéǵʰti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction 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.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
   • the fiction section of the library
   • I am a great reader of fiction.
2. (countable, uncountable) A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead); an untrue belief.
   • […] in view of the facts—and some fictions—recently circulated in this country about the general performance of high-powered diesel-hydraulics of B.R., […]. 1963 June, G. Freeman Allen, “The success of diesel-hydraulics on the German Federal Railway”, in Modern Railways, page 390:
   • separate the fact from the fiction
   • 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! 1801, Rev. John Moir, The Gospel of Jesus the Philosophy of Life. With an Appendix and Index, page 241:
   • The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
   • The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.
3. (countable, uncountable) A legal fiction.

Forms

Antonyms

documentary · fact · truth · non-fiction

Deriveds

autobiografiction · nonfiction · literary fiction · fictitious · design fiction · non-mimetic fiction · macro-fiction · gothic fiction · fictionization · truth is stranger than fiction · imaginative fiction · historical fiction · twiction · non-fiction · airport fiction · polite fiction · fictioneer · sudden fiction · autofiction · ecofiction · interactive fiction · fictiony · unfiction · slash fiction · fictious · message fiction · cyberfiction · fan fiction · pulp fiction · fan-fiction · faction · fictionmonger · cli-fi · pseudofiction · micro-fiction · fictionish · flash fiction · fictionise · work of fiction · manfiction · paradox of fiction · microfiction · fictionist · fictionmaking · telefiction · fictionary · fact is stranger than fiction · fictomercial · geofiction · fictional · hyperfiction · scientifiction · fictionkin · faan fiction · soft science fiction · eco-fiction · chat fiction · fictionize · metafiction · docufiction · explanatory fiction · proto-science fiction · weird fiction · pious fiction · hard science fiction · genre fiction · encyclopedic fiction · xenofiction · petrofiction · real person fiction

Descendants

ficsean · ficsean

Hyponyms

speculative fiction · science fiction

Synonyms

fabrication · figment

Translations (124)

cs fikce (invention) · ru худо́жественная литерату́ра (literary type) · fr belles-lettres (literary type) · ru беллетри́стика (literary type) · da fantasi (invention) · tr kurgu (literary type) · fi fiktio (invention) · cy ffuglen (literary type) · ko 소설 (literary type) · be вы́думка (invention) · ru фикшн (literary type) · tl gawa-gawa (invention) · jv dedongèngan (literary type) · ja フィクション (literary type) · grc μυθολογία (literary type) · sv fiktion (literary type) · nn skjønnlitteratur (literary type) · nn fiksjon (literary type) · ca ficció (invention) · bg изми́слица (invention) · nl fictie (invention) · bg худо́жествена литерату́ра (literary type) · id fiksi (literary type) · sv skönlitteratur (literary type) · uk белетри́стика (literary type) · gd uirsgeul (literary type) · pt invenção (invention) · mi pakiwaitara (literary type) · fi taru (invention) · uk фі́кція (invention) · la res ficta (literary type) · be вы́мысел (invention) · ceb handurawat (literary type) · ru вы́мысел (invention) · ja 小説 (literary type) · be бэлетры́стыка (literary type) · mi kōrero takuahi (invention) · pt invencionice (invention) · de Erfindung (invention) · pt ficção (invention) · nb skjønnlitteratur (literary type) · ru фи́кция (invention) · mi pakimaero (literary type) · it finzione (literary type) · da skønlitteratur (literary type) · is skáldskapur (invention) · sk beletria (literary type) · lv beletristika (literary type) · oc ficcion (literary type) · ko 픽션 (literary type) · cs výmysl (invention) · el μυθιστόρημα (literary type) · be маста́цкая літарату́ра (literary type) · ga finscéal (literary type) · pt ficção (literary type) · tl kathang-isip (literary type) · pdt Romaunschreft (literary type) · uk ви́гад (invention) · ang lēasspell (literary type) · fr fiction (literary type) · enm ficcioun (invention) · lt grožinė literatūra (literary type) · pl fikcja (invention) · ar خَيَال (literary type) · eo fikcio (literary type) · da opspind (invention) · ga ficsean (literary type) · gd ficsean (literary type) · pl beletrystyka (literary type) · hi काल्पनिक (literary type) · gl ficción (literary type) · be кра́снае пісьме́нства (literary type) · be фі́кцыя (invention) · ms cereka (literary type) · nl fictie (literary type) · uk ви́гадка (invention) · fr fiction (invention) · fi sepite (invention) · sk fikcia (literary type) · fi kaunokirjallisuus (literary type) · la commentum (literary type) · az qurma (invention) · mk измислица (invention) · is skáldskapur (literary type) · la fabula (literary type) · cmn 虛構文學 /虚构文学 (literary type) · pt fingimento (invention) · lv daiļliteratūra (literary type) · el μυθοπλασία (invention) · da fiktion (literary type) · fi fiktio (literary type) · pt ficcionismo (literary type) · az qondarma (invention) · nb fiksjon (literary type) · mk белетристика (literary type) · hu szépirodalom (literary type) · es ficción (literary type) · es ficción (invention) · de Belletristik (literary type) · cmn 小說 /小说 (literary type) · ms cerita rekaan (literary type) · fo skaldskapur (literary type) · xal урн зокъял (literary type) · az uydurma (invention) · uk ви́мисел (invention) · cs beletrie (literary type) · ru фи́кшен (literary type) · ar رِوَايَة (literary type) · ca ficció (literary type) · sk výmysel (invention) · tr kurgu (invention) · uk худо́жня літерату́ра (literary type) · oc ficcion (invention) · tl bungang-isip (literary type) · pt literatura de ficção (literary type) · bg белетри́стика (literary type) · de Fiktion (literary type) · is uppspuni (invention) · ms fiksyen (literary type) · ms fiksi (literary type) · ro literatură artistică (literary type) · ru вы́думка (invention) · sw bunilizi (literary type) · fa داستانی (literary type)