Fiction is the classification for any
story created in the imagination,
[1][2] rather than based strictly on history or fact.
[3][note 1] Fiction can be expressed in a variety of formats, including
writings,
live performances,
films,
television programs,
video games, and
role-playing games, though the term originally and most commonly refers to the major narrative forms of
literature (see
literary fiction),
[4] including the
novel,
novella,
short story, and
play. Fiction constitutes an act of creative invention, so that faithfulness to reality is not typically assumed;
[5] in other words, fiction is not expected to present only
characters who are actual people or descriptions that are factually true. The context of fiction is generally open to
interpretation, due to fiction's freedom from any necessary embedding in reality;
[6] however, some fictional works are claimed to be, or marketed as, historically or factually accurate, complicating the traditional distinction between fiction and
non-fiction.
[7] Fiction is a classification or category, rather than a specific
mode or
genre, unless used in a narrower sense as a
synonym for a particular literary fiction form.
[8]
fiction
noun
noun: fiction; plural noun: fictions
1.
literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people.
| synonyms: | novels, stories, creative writing, imaginative writing, works of the imagination, prose literature, narration, story telling; More
"the traditions of British fiction"
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2.
something that is invented or untrue.
"they were supposed to be keeping up the fiction that they were happily married"
| synonyms: | fabrication, invention, lies, fibs, concoction, untruth, falsehood, fantasy, fancy, illusion, sham, nonsense; More
"the president dismissed the allegation as absolute fiction"
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