# fiction
## English
### Etymology

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”).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: fĭk′-shən, IPA: /ˈfɪk.ʃən/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: fic‧tion
   * Rhymes: -ɪkʃən

### Noun

fiction (countable and uncountable, plural fictions)
* (literature) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
    I am a great reader of fiction.
    the fiction section of the library
* A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
    The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
    The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.
    separate the fact from the fiction
** 1963 June, G. Freeman Allen, “The success of diesel-hydraulics on the German Federal Railway”, in Modern Railways, page 390:[…] 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., […] .
* (law) A legal fiction.

#### Synonyms

* fabrication
* figment

#### Antonyms

* documentary
* fact
* non-fiction
* truth

#### Hyponyms

* science fiction
* speculative fiction

#### Derived terms

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

#### Descendants

* → Irish: ficsean
* → Scottish Gaelic: ficsean

#### Translations

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### Further reading

* “fiction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “fiction”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
* “fiction”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* "fiction" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 134.

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin fictiōnem (accusative of fictiō).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fik.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

fiction f (plural fictions)
* fiction

#### Related terms

* fictif
* science-fiction

### Further reading

* “fiction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.