fic·tion (f k sh n)n. 1. a. An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented. b. The act of inventing such a creation or pretense. 2. A lie. 3. a. A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact. b. The category of literature comprising works of this kind, including novels and short stories. 4. Law Something untrue that is intentionally represented as true by the narrator. [Middle English ficcioun, from Old French fiction, from Latin ficti  , fictin-, from fictus, past participle of fingere, to form; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots.]fic tion·al adj.fic  tion·ali·ty (-sh-n l-t ) n.fic tion·al·ly adv.Word History: To most people "the latest fiction" means the latest novels or stories rather than the most recently invented pretense or latest lie. All three senses of the word fiction point back to its source, Latin ficti , "the action of shaping, a feigning, that which is feigned." Ficti in turn was derived from fingere, "to make by shaping, feign, make up or invent a story or excuse." Our first instance of fiction, recorded in a work composed around 1412, was used in the sense "invention of the mind, that which is imaginatively invented." It is not a far step from this meaning to the sense "imaginative literature," first recorded in 1599. |
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Adj. | 1. | fictional - related to or involving literary fiction; "clever fictional devices"; "a fictional treatment of the train robbery" nonfictional - not fictional |
| 2. | fictional - formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character" unreal - lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; "ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news" |
fictional
adjective imaginary, made-up, invented, legendary, unreal, nonexistent a drama featuring fictional characters
Translations
fictional [ˈfɪkʃənəl] adj [character, place] → fictif/ive
fictional
adj
(= invented) → erfunden; (Liter) character, hero, heroine, setting, account → erfunden, fiktiv; film, drama → fiktional; entirely fictional → rein fiktiv, frei erfunden; the party’s unity was fictional → die Einheit der Partei war eine Fiktion
(= relating to fiction) work → erzählerisch; his fictional writing → seine erzählenden Schriften; a clever fictional device → ein geschickter erzählerischer Trick; a fictional representation of historical events → eine dichterische Darstellung historischer Ereignisse
fictional [ˈfɪkʃənl] adj → immaginario/a
fictional [ˈfɪkʃənl] adj → immaginario/a
fictional [ˈfɪkʃənl] adj → immaginario/a
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