fiction
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *dʰi-né-ǵʰ-ti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction 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.
Definitions
Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually…
Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
- I am a great reader of fiction.
- the fiction section of the library
A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to…
A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
- The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
- The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.
- separate the fact from the fiction
A legal fiction.
The neighborhood
- synonymfabrication
- synonymfigment
- antonymdocumentary
- antonymfact
- antonymnon-fiction
- antonymtruth
- neighborscience fiction
- neighborspeculative fiction
Derived
airport fiction, autobiografiction, autofiction, chat fiction, cli-fi, cyberfiction, design fiction, docufiction, eco-fiction, ecofiction, encyclopedic fiction, explanatory fiction, faan fiction, faction, fact is stranger than fiction, fan-fiction, fan fiction, fictional, fictionary, fictioneer, fictionise, fictionish, fictionist, fictionization, fictionize, fictionkin, fictionmaking, fictionmonger, fictiony, fictitious, fictomercial, flash fiction, genre fiction, geofiction, hard science fiction, historical fiction, hyperfiction, imaginative fiction, interactive fiction, literary fiction · +28 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at fiction. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at fiction. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at fiction
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA