Definition of fiction Fiction

/fɪˈkʃʌn/ - [fikshun] - fic•tion

We found 13 definitions of fiction from 7 different sources.

What does fiction mean?

Noun Plural: fiction
fiction - a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
		literary composition, literary work imaginative or creative writing
		dystopia a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror
		novel a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction; "his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels"; "he burned all the novels"
		fantasy, phantasy imagination unrestricted by reality; "a schoolgirl fantasy"
		story a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"
fiction - a deliberately false or improbable account
		fabrication, fable
		untruth, falsehood, falsity a false statement

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fiction (Noun)
Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
fiction (Noun)
Invention.

fiction (n.)
The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.
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.
fiction (n.)
Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.
fiction (n.)
An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.
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.

fiction
A literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.

fiction
fik′shun, n. a feigned or false story: a falsehood: romance: the novel, story-telling as a branch of literature: a supposition of law that a thing is true, which is either certainly not true, or at least is as probably false as true.—adj. Fic′tional.—n. Fic′tionist, a writer of fiction.—adj. Ficti′tious, imaginary: not real: forged.—adv. Ficti′tiously.—adj. Fic′tive, fictitious, imaginative.—n. Fic′tor, one who makes images of clay, &c. [Fr.,—L. fiction-em—fictus, pa.p. of fingĕre.]

Fiction is a story that's not true. It is made up by the author. The opposite of fiction is non-fiction, stories that are true. Many things can be fictional, like literature, films, music, and other art forms.

Often in a library, part of the library is for fiction books and another part of the library is for non-fiction.