FICTIONS Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

fictions

noun

plural of fiction

as in fantasies

something that is the product of the imagination most stories about famous outlaws of the Old West are fictions that have little or nothing to do with fact

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Recent Examples of fictions Corporations are legal fictions — a game of pretend in which fictional entities are created, registering with the state. —

Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026 As much as with any director of the most intimate personal fictions, Wiseman’s nonfictions could be laid end to end and viewed in continuity, like the story of an extraordinary life. —

Richard Brody, New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2026 But these have always been legal fictions. —

Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026 The vast encyclopedic architecture of Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) or Mason & Dixon (1997) gives way here to a series of detective fictions each set in a distinct historical moment, each featuring a reluctant investigator sifting through the wreckage of cultural paranoia. —

Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025 The fictions that result, many so small and meaningless, can be accepted without much trouble. —

Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2025 Worries about fictions created by artificial intelligence used to prepare legal documents have plagued the legal community for the past few years, as the public’s infatuation with the generative technology has grown. —

Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 7 Nov. 2025 This isn’t just shot in black-and-white, thus resembling the 1960 meta-commentary on American crime thrillers and pulp fictions in all its monochromatic glory. —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025 The End, the past year has seen a surge in speculative fictions about super-rich characters who hunker down in expensive isolation as the world burns. —

Judy Berman, Time, 19 Sep. 2025

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From that premise, Gyllenhaal lighted on 1930s movie musicals as some of the glossiest and most charming fantasies that Hollywood has ever put out, but also as some of the most consciously artificial.

— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2026
In fact, his manuscript is also about his fantasies—in this case, fantasies about a young man who has a meaningful, intellectual, tender affair with his older mentor.

— Meg Walters, Glamour, 9 Mar. 2026