n.1 an invented idea or statement or narrative; an imaginary thing.
2 literature, esp. novels, describing imaginary events and people.
3 a conventionally accepted falsehood (legal fiction; polite fiction).
4 the act or process of inventing imaginary things.
Derivatives:
fictional adj. fictionality n. fictionalize v.tr. (also -ise). fictionalization n. fictionally adv. fictionist n.
Etymology: ME f. OF f. L fictio -onis (as FICTILE)