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1. A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
    
2. A deliberately false or improbable account
   - fabrication, fable
    
3. The creation of something in the mind
   - invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design

Derived forms: fictions

See also: fictional, fictionalize, fictitious

Type of: creative thinking, creativeness, creativity, falsehood, falsity, literary composition, literary work, untruth

Encyclopedia: Fiction