Definition of Fiction

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Fiction

The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.

That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality.

Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.

An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.

Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.

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Fiction Quotations

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark Twain

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Mark Twain

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
Steven Wright

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
Jimi Hendrix

Fiction Translations

fiction in Dutch is fictie, verdichtsel, verbeelding
fiction in Finnish is kuvitelma
fiction in French is invention, fiction
fiction in German is Fiktion, Annahme {f}
fiction in Italian is invenzione, ipotesi

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