Associations to the word «Fiction»

Wiktionary

FICTION, noun. Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
FICTION, noun. (uncountable) Invention.

Dictionary definition

FICTION, noun. A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact.
FICTION, noun. A deliberately false or improbable account.

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.