fiction

Noun

Meaning

The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.

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.

Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.

An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.

Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.

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The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction. Thomas Henry Huxley

The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense. Tom Clancy

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction. C. J. Cherryh

Truth is stranger than fiction. English Proverb

Fact can be stranger than fiction. American Proverb

Truth is stranger than fiction. Dutch Proverb

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