Antonyms for fiction
ˈfɪk ʃənfic·tion

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.0 / 3 votes

1. fictionnoun

   Antonyms:
   documentary, fact, non-fiction

   Synonyms:
   figment, fabrication

2. fictionnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   non-fiction, fact, documentary

   Synonyms:
   figment, fabrication

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.

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

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

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

1. fiction

   Antonyms:
   fact, truth, verity, reality

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

Matched Categories

1. • Falsehood
   • Literary Composition

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms: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

How to use fiction in a sentence?

1. G. K. Chesterton:

   Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

2. Seira Wilson:

   Historical fiction has always been popular, but Common Core kicked it (and historical nonfiction) to the forefront.

3. Mark Twain:

   Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

4. Heinrich Heine:

   Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

5. Michael Rubin:

   While many in the West might find it enduring that the King is a Trekkie who once even had a Star Trek 'Voyager' cameo, Islamists consider science fiction forbidden because it presumes to know a future that only God can know.

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