Definition of fiction

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Fiction (n.) The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind..

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Reality :: Reality (n.) That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea..
Extraterritoriality :: Extraterritoriality (n.) A fiction by which a public minister, though actually in a foreign country, is supposed still to remain within the territory of his own sovereign or nation..
Furnace :: Furnace (n.) A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline..
Tartufe :: Tartufe (n.) A hypocritical devotee. See the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
Invention :: Invention (n.) A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.
Figment :: Figment (n.) An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
Imbroglio :: Imbroglio (n.) An intricate, complicated plot, as of a drama or work of fiction..
Fable :: Fable (v. i.) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true..
Novelize :: Novelize (v. t.) To put into the form of novels; to represent by fiction.
Fictionist :: Fictionist (n.) A writer of fiction.
Make-believe :: Make-believe (n.) A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention..
Fictional :: Fictional (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic..
Fiction :: Fiction (n.) An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth..
Fiction :: Fiction (n.) That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality..
Moral :: Moral (n.) The inner meaning or significance of a fable, a narrative, an occurrence, an experience, etc.; the practical lesson which anything is designed or fitted to teach; the doctrine meant to be inculcated by a fiction; a maxim..
Fiction :: Fiction (n.) The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind..
Fiction :: Fiction (n.) Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue..
Fable :: Fable (n.) Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
Relation :: Relation (n.) The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation..
Ygdrasyl :: Ygdrasyl (n.) See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
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