fiction

 
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪkʃ(ə)n/

noun

  • 1 [mass noun] literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people.
  • 2something that is invented or untrue: they were supposed to be keeping up the fiction that they were happily married
  • a belief or statement which is false, but is often held to be true because it is expedient to do so: the notion of the country being a democracy is a polite fiction

Derivatives

fictionist

noun

Origin:

late Middle English (in the sense 'invented statement'): via Old French from Latin fictio(n-), from fingere 'form, contrive'. Compare with feign and figment