fiction
Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
Noun 3 meanings
Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
“I am a great reader of fiction.”
A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead); an untrue belief.
“The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.”
A legal fiction.
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”).
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FICTION at a glance
FICTION has 7 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (F 4 + I 1 + C 3 + T 1 + I 1 + O 1 + N 1) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,297 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with fiction
All rhymesOne letter away
- FACTION12
- DICTION10
- MICTION11
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