Word Meaning

Meaning of "fiction" and the crossword clue

- Creative writing
- Fairy tale
- Made-up story
- Thing that is invented or untrue
- 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.