fiction
noun
fic·tion
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Definition of fiction
1a
: something invented by the imagination or feigned
specifically
: an invented story
… I'd found out that the story of the ailing son was pure fiction. — Andrew A. Rooney
b
: fictitious literature (such as novels or short stories)
was renowned as a writer of fiction
2a
: an assumption of a possibility as a fact irrespective of the question of its truth
a legal fiction
b
: a useful illusion or pretense
it was only a fiction of independence his mother gave him; he was almost totally under her power— G. A. Wagner
3
: the action of feigning or of creating with the imagination
She engaged in fiction to escape painful realities.