fiction

  • 41fiction — In the sense of a fiction of law, a contrived condition or situation; the simulation of a status or condition with the purpose of accomplishing justice, albeit justice reached by devious means, as the fiction of casual ejector whereby the action… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 42fiction — see fact is stranger than fiction truth is stranger than fiction …

    Proverbs new dictionary

  • 43fiction — n. 1 an invented idea or statement or narrative; an imaginary thing. 2 literature, esp. novels, describing imaginary events and people. 3 a conventionally accepted falsehood (legal fiction; polite fiction). 4 the act or process of inventing… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 44fiction — noun a) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose. The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions. b) Invention. I am a great reader of fiction. Syn: fabrication …

    Wiktionary

  • 45fiction —    see fiction illusion …

    Dictionary of Hallucinations

  • 46fiction — fic·tion s.f.inv. ES ingl. {{wmetafile0}} opera letteraria, film o programma televisivo, spec. a episodi o a puntate, basati su storie di carattere fantastico, avventuroso, poliziesco, dell orrore, ecc. | genere cui appartengono tali opere e… …

    Dizionario italiano

  • 47fiction — is., Fr. fiction Bakınız kurgu …

    Çağatay Osmanlı Sözlük

  • 48fiction — [14] Fiction is literally ‘something made or invented’ – and indeed that was the original meaning of the word in English. It seems always to have been used in the sense ‘story or set of “facts” invented’ rather than of some concrete invention,… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 49fiction — n. 1. Invention, fancy, fantasy, imagination. 2. Novel, romance, work of fiction, feigned story. 3. Fabrication, figment, invention, fable, falsehood, lie. 4. Fictitious literature …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 50fiction — n 1. story, tale, romance, novel, anti novel, Archaic. gest; myth, legend, fable, parable, allegory, saga, epic; mystery, Inf. whodunit, Inf. thriller, Inf. shocker; science fiction story, sci fi story, Inf. space opera. 2. fabrication, invention …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder