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a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

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.

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.

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.

The act of feigning or inventing; that which is imagined, feigned, or invented; a literary production of the imagination in prose form, as a novel, romance, etc.

Fictional.

A feigned or false story; a falsehood; romance; the act of making or fashioning; as, "We have never dreamt that parliaments had any right whatever to force a currency of their own fiction in the place of that which is real."-Burke.

An invented story.

A representing of that which is not true; a fabrication; fictitious narrative; novel.

n. [Latin] Act of feigning, inventing, or imagining;—that which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a fictitious story; fable; fabrication; falsehood.

The act of feigning or inventing; the thing feigned or invented; a falsehood, a lie.