Definition of fiction
1 a
:something invented by the imagination or feigned;
specifically
:an invented story
- … I'd found out that the story of the ailing son was pure fiction.
- —Andrew A. Rooney
b
:fictitious literature (such as novels or short stories)
- was renowned as a writer of fiction
c
:a work of fiction;
especially
:novel
- Her latest work is a fiction set during the Civil War.
2 a
:an assumption of a possibility as a fact irrespective of the question of its truth
- a legal fiction
b
:a useful illusion or pretense
- it was only a fiction of independence his mother gave him; he was almost totally under her power
- —G. A. Wagner
3
:the action of feigning or of creating with the imagination
- She engaged in fiction to escape painful realities.
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