fiction
• noun 1 prose literature, especially novels, describing imaginary events and people. 2 invention as opposed to fact. 3 a false belief or statement, accepted as true for the sake of convenience. — DERIVATIVES fictional adjective fictionality noun fictionalize (also fictionalise) verb fictionally adverb fictionist noun. — ORIGIN Latin, from fingere ‘form, contrive’.
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