0 the type of book or story that is written about imaginary characters and events and not based on real people and facts: --
When he's telling you something, you never know what's fact and what's fiction.
[ + that ] At work she kept up the fiction that she had a university degree.
a writer of children's fiction
The book is a work of fiction and not intended as a historical account.
1 the type of book or story that is written about imaginary characters and events and does not describe real people or deal with facts, or a false report or statement that you pretend is true: --
His travel writings and fictions should no longer be foreign to scholars of the imperial eye.
To be sure, we still know little about the affordability of non-scholarly works - songbooks, tracts, short fictions, medical manuals, household encyclopedias, and so forth.
All these fictions are necessary to our thought and practice.
The argument asks that the desire for unified or emancipated futures be exposed as based in fictions of the past.
When they sail away from the island to distant lands, they disperse misunderstanding and create fictions about the past.
When the new financial villains become aware of their self-deceit, their moral dilemma plays out larger problems of the magicality of paper fictions.
The concepts of a language, dialect, and even idiolect are fictions, ordered abstractions from the unsuppressible flux of change that alone is real.
Generally, it can provide an analytical framework for understanding a legal context which is relatively free from and/or highlights legal fictions.
