Word Meanings - FICTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton. 5. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. Syn. --

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An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton. 5. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. Syn. -- Fabrication; invention; fable; falsehood. -- Fiction, Fabrication. Fiction is opposed to what is real; fabrication to what is true. Fiction is designed commonly to amuse, and sometimes to instruct; a fabrication is always intended to mislead and deceive. In the novels of Sir Walter Scott we have fiction of the highest order. The poems of Ossian, so called, were chiefly fabrications by Macpherson. (more info) 1. The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality. The fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon. Sir W. Raleigh. When it could no longer be denied that her flight had been voluntary, numerous fictions were invented to account for it. Macaulay. 3. Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances. The office of fiction as a vehicle of instruction and moral elevation has been recognized by most if not all great educators. Dict. of Education.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FICTION)

• Apologue
• Fable
• fiction
• parable
• Cheat
• Deception
• fraud
• imposition
• trick
• artifice
• illusion
• imposture
• swindle
• finesse
• deceit
• lie
• Fallacy
• Sophistry
• error
• blunder
• misconception
• bugbear
• delusion
• chimera
• false
• Untrue
• erroneous
• fallacious
• sophistical
• spurious
• deceptive
• fabrication
• counterfeit
• mendacious
• sham
• mock
• bogus
• unfaithful
• fib
• falsity
• dishonorable
• faithless
• Image
• Statue
• likeness
• representation
• effigy
• copy
• metaphor
• idea
• conception
• shadow
• picture
• vision

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FICTION)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse
• Expose
• unmask
• detect

Related words: (words related to FICTION)

• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• METAPHORIST
  One who makes metaphors.
• STATUED
  Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. "Statued niches." G. Eliot.
• DETECTOR BAR
  A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train , laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• FINESSE
  The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2. (more info) 1. Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem. This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery. Milton.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• ILLUSIONABLE
  Liable to illusion.
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• TRICK
  The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• FAITHLESS
  1. Not believing; not giving credit. Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 27. 2. Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion. Shak. 3. Not observant of promises or covenants. 4. Not true
• TRICKISH
  Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• SUPERCONCEPTION
  Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
• INEFFABLENESS
  The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness.
• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• SELF-DELUSION
  The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.