Definition of fiction

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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..

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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..
Idea :: Idea (n.) A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity..
Plot :: Plot (n.) In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means..
Fabulize :: Fabulize (v. i.) To invent, compose, or relate fables or fictions..
Furnace :: Furnace (n.) A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline..
Fable :: Fable (n.) Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
Fictional :: Fictional (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic..
Make-believe :: Make-believe (n.) A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention..
Reconcile :: Reconcile (v. t.) To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions..
Gripe :: Gripe (n.) Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty..
Novelize :: Novelize (v. t.) To put into the form of novels; to represent by fiction.
Fictionist :: Fictionist (n.) A writer of fiction.
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..
Lie :: Lie (n.) A fiction; a fable; an untruth.
Utopia :: Utopia (n.) An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like. See Utopia, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction..
Imbroglio :: Imbroglio (n.) An intricate, complicated plot, as of a drama or work of fiction..
Ygdrasyl :: Ygdrasyl (n.) See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
Fiction :: Fiction (n.) An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth..
Roundhead :: Roundhead (n.) A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction..
Munchausenism :: Munchausenism (n.) An extravagant fiction embodying an account of some marvelous exploit or adventure.
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