See fiction in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
An illusory mental image:
daydream, dream, fancy, fantasy, figment, illusion, phantasm, phantasma, reverie, vision. See realAny fictitious idea accepted as part of an ideology by an uncritical group; a received idea:
creation, fantasy, figment, invention, myth. See belief, realAn untrue declaration:
canard, cock-and-bull story, falsehood, falsity, fib, inveracity, lie2, misrepresentation, misstatement, prevarication, story, tale, untruth. (Informal) fish story, tall tale. (Slang) whopper. See trueA narrative not based on fact:
fable, story. See real
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