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fiction

n.

Something invented or feigned
fabrication, untruth, invention; see fantasy 2, lie 1.
Imaginative prose narrative
novel, tale, romance; see story.

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Another word for fiction

noun

An illusory mental image:
daydream, dream, fancy, fantasy, figment, illusion, phantasm, phantasma, reverie, vision. See real
Any fictitious idea accepted as part of an ideology by an uncritical group; a received idea:
creation, fantasy, figment, invention, myth. See belief, real
An 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 true
A narrative not based on fact:
fable, story. See real

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His characteristics in his prose fiction and descriptive work are not very different from those of his poetry.
In American works of fiction, particularly of New England authors, the reader will find a wealth of description of Massachusetts and New England life, past and present, as in the writings of William D.
Just because it's fiction doesn't mean you can't learn from it.
Burpee'S Bibliography Of Canadian Fiction (1904); S.
The fiction of Belisarius wandering as a blind beggar through the streets of Constantinople, which has been adopted by Marmontel in his Belisaire, and by various painters and poets, is first heard of in the 10th century.

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