noun see: dough Date: 14th century 1. something invented by the imagination or feigned, fictitious literature (as novels or short stories), a work of ~, 2. an assumption of a possibility as a fact irrespective of the question of its truth , a useful illusion or pretense, the action of feigning or of creating with the imagination, ~al adjective ~ality noun ~ally adverb
FICTION
Meaning of FICTION in English
Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012