Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists. I can't even entertain the possibility [of a head transplant] — it's a little too much science fiction right now. We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe. If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly. Forgot your password?
Retrieve it. If by any chance you spot an inappropriate image within your search results please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly. Term » Definition. Word in Definition. Princeton's WordNet 4. Wiktionary 3. The butler's account of the crime was pure fiction. Wikipedia 1. Webster Dictionary 4. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality Fiction noun fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances Fiction noun an assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth Fiction noun any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.
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With the music supplying the soundtrack, these daydreams are often historical fictions. From the Cambridge English Corpus. The contradictions and overdeterminations of their construction as stereotypes in the newspapers, cartoons, fictions, and polemics of the period are obvious. The forest becomes a space for the continual creation and unmaking of fictions.
Collective fictions are, by implication, unstable and subject to the pressures of history. The question of narrator and audience is central to family studies and the fictions they inspired. People know or assume that public fictions novels, movies, cartoons, etc. The concepts of a language, dialect, and even idiolect are fictions, ordered abstractions from the unsuppressible flux of change that alone is real.
When the new financial villains become aware of their self-deceit, their moral dilemma plays out larger problems of the magicality of paper fictions.
When they sail away from the island to distant lands, they disperse misunderstanding and create fictions about the past. The argument asks that the desire for unified or emancipated futures be exposed as based in fictions of the past. All these fictions are necessary to our thought and practice. To be sure, we still know little about the affordability of non-scholarly works - songbooks, tracts, short fictions, medical manuals, household encyclopedias, and so forth.
His travel writings and fictions should no longer be foreign to scholars of the imperial eye. See all examples of fiction. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Legal Definition of fiction. Other Words from fiction fictional adjective. Get Word of the Day daily email! Test Your Vocabulary. Test your vocabulary with our question quiz! Love words? Need even more definitions? Homophones, Homographs, and Homonyms The same, but different.
Merriam-Webster's Words of the Week - Nov. Ask the Editors 'Everyday' vs. Scott Fitzgerald , and Lolita , by Vladimir Nabokov. New Word List Word List. Save This Word! See synonyms for fiction on Thesaurus. See antonyms for fiction on Thesaurus.
We could talk until we're blue in the face about this quiz on words for the color "blue," but we think you should take the quiz and find out if you're a whiz at these colorful terms. Fiction, fabrication, figment suggest a story that is without basis in reality. Fiction suggests a story invented and fashioned either to entertain or to deceive: clever fiction; pure fiction.
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