Synonyms for fiction
ˈfɪk ʃənfic·tion

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.0 / 3 votes

1. fictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   figment, fabrication

   Antonyms:
   documentary, fact, non-fiction

2. fictionnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   figment, fabrication

   Antonyms:
   non-fiction, fact, documentary

3. fictionnoun

   Invention.

   The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.

   Synonyms:
   fabrication, figment

   Antonyms:
   documentary, fact, non-fiction

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. fiction

   Fiction is now chiefly used of a prose work in narrative form in which the characters are partly or wholly imaginary, and which is designed to portray human life, with or without a practical lesson; a romance portrays what is picturesque or striking, as a mere fiction may not do; novel is a general name for any continuous fictitious narrative, especially a love-story; fiction and novel are used with little difference of meaning, except that novel characterizes a work in which the emotional element is especially prominent. The moral of the fable is expressed formally; the lesson of the fiction, if any, is inwrought. A fiction is studied; a myth grows up without intent. A legend may be true, but can not be historically verified; a myth has been received as true at some time, but is now known to be false. A fabrication is designed to deceive; it is a less odious word than falsehood, but is really stronger, as a falsehood may be a sudden unpremeditated statement, while a fabrication is a series of statements carefully studied and fitted together in order to deceive; the falsehood is all false; the fabrication may mingle the true with the false. A figment is something imaginary which the one who utters it may or may not believe to be true; we say, "That statement is a figment of his imagination." The story may be either true or false, and covers the various senses of all the words in the group. Apologue, a word simply transferred from Greek into English, is the same as fable. Compare ALLEGORY.

   Synonyms:
   allegory, apologue, fable, fabrication, falsehood, figment, invention, legend, myth, novel, romance, story

   Antonyms:
   certainty, fact, history, literalness, reality, truth, verity

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fiction

   Synonyms:
   invention, fabrication, creation, figment, fable, falsehood, romance, myth

   Antonyms:
   fact, truth, verity, reality

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fictionnoun

   a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

   Synonyms:
   fable, fabrication

2. fabrication, fiction, fablenoun

   a deliberately false or improbable account

   Synonyms:
   lying, fictionalisation, fabrication, manufacturing, allegory, assembly, legend, parable, prevarication, apologue, fictionalization, manufacture, fable

Matched Categories

1. • Falsehood
   • Literary Composition

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1. sardoodledomnoun

   a good part majorly in moving which is morally objectionable

   the avengers series is filled with sardoodledom

   Submitted by fullmoonprofessor on February 7, 2022  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   invention, fable

2. fictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   novel, romance, work of fiction, feigned story

3. fictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   fabrication, figment, falsehood, lie

4. fictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   fictitious literature

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "fiction":

   feature, imagination, fantasy, novel, sci-fi, pretence, roman, unreal

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How to use fiction in a sentence?

1. Stas Malavin:

   The takeaway is that a multicellular organism can be frozen and stored as such for thousands of years and then return back to life -- a dream of many fiction writers.

2. Frederic Grare:

   For the United States it's clearly a big blow, because its whole Afghan withdrawal plan has been based on the fiction that you had a reconciliation process going on.

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

4. Charles El Mir:

   It may sound like science fiction but a great deal of research considers asteroid collisions, for example, if there's an asteroid coming at earth, are we better off breaking it into small pieces, or nudging it to go a different direction ? And if the latter, how much force should we hit it with to move it away without causing it to break ?

5. Simone Weil:

   There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.