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  

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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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1. Frank Herbert:

   The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

2. Eleanor Roosevelt:

   The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

3. Stephanie Grisham:

   Yet another book about Melania Trump with false information and sources. This book belongs in the fiction genre.

4. The Times:

   There’s a moral and psychic cost to participating in the fiction that people who work for Trump are in any sense public servants.

5. Jan Van den Bulck:

   It’s a different kind of immersion—the idea that you almost feel as if you’re in that world of science fiction or fantasy or action, and it’s more intense if you have more hours of exposure.