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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope