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fiction | fictive |

As a noun fiction

is literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.

As an adjective fictive is

fictional, unreal, fanciful or invented.

fiction

Noun

(en noun)
  • Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
  • The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions .
    I am a great reader of fiction .
  • (uncountable) Invention.
  • The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction .

    Synonyms

    * fabrication * figment

    Antonyms

    * documentary * fact * non-fiction

    Derived terms

    * non-fiction * science fiction * speculative fiction * fiction section

    fictive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • fictional, unreal, fanciful or invented
  • Derived terms

    * fictive kin

    See also

    * fictitious ----