Added 9 October 2026
fiction
/ˈfɪkʃən/ noun
In Latin: fabula, commentum Wiktionary
noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about fiction at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact.
- A deliberately false or improbable account.
Origin
From Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion (“dissimulation, ruse, invention”), from Latin fictiō (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”), from fingō (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”). Displaced native Old English lēasspell (literally “false story”); see feign, feint, figment.
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