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Another word for fiction

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Noun

  1. An illusory mental image

    See also:

    real

  2. Any fictitious idea accepted as part of an ideology by an uncritical group; a received idea

    See also:

    real

    belief

  3. An untrue declaration

    See also:

    true

  4. A narrative not based on fact

    See also:

    real

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Another word for fiction

Noun

  1. Something invented or feigned

    See also:

    lie

    fantasy

  2. Imaginative prose narrative

    See also:

    story

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Sentence Examples

  • Just because it's fiction doesn't mean you can't learn from it.

  • "Robot" is a term almost one hundred years old, created in fiction before becoming a reality.

  • 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.

  • It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.

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