fiction

Pronunciation: /ˈfɪkʃən/

The English word “fiction” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead); an untrue belief.
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”). Displaced native Old English lēasspell (literally “false story”); see feign, feint, figment.

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