A fiction is a deliberately fabricated account of something. It can also be a literary work based on imagination rather than on fact, like a novel or short story.
The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining;
Noun
a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
Noun
a deliberately false or improbable account
n.
The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a
mere fiction of the mind.
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.
n.
Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of
imagination; specifically, novels and romances.
n.
An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective
of the question of its truth.
n.
Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing
more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really
at issue.
Fiction
The fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon.
When it could no longer be denied that her flight had been voluntary, numerous fictions were invented to account for it.3.
The office of fiction as a vehicle of instruction and moral elevation has been recognized by most if not all great educators.4.
The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining;
Usage Examples
And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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Other Usage ExamplesDune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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