NOUN | communication | fiction | a literary work based on the imagination / imagination and not necessarily on fact |
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communication | fiction, fabrication, fable | a deliberately false / false or improbable account |
Sounds | fih'kshahn | |
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Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... |
Meaning | A literary work based on the imagination / imagination and not necessarily on fact. | |
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Narrower | dystopia | A work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror |
fantasy, phantasy | fiction with a large / large / large amount of imagination / imagination in it | |
novel | An extended fictional work in prose | |
story | A piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events | |
utopia | A work of fiction describing a utopia | |
Broader | literary composition, literary work | imaginative or creative writing |
Spanish | ficción | |
Catalan | ficció | |
Adjectives | fictional | related to or involving literary fiction |
fictitious | formed or conceived by the imagination | |
Verbs | fictionalize | make into fiction |
Meaning | A deliberately false / false or improbable account. | |
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Synonyms | fabrication, fable | |
Narrower | canard | A deliberately misleading fabrication |
Broader | falsehood, falsity, untruth | A false statement |
Spanish | elucubración, fábula, ficción, invención | |
Catalan | faula, ficció, invenció | |
Adjectives | fictional | formed or conceived by the imagination |
fictitious | adopted in order to deceive / deceive | |
Verbs | fictionalize | make into fiction |
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