fiction

IPA: fˈɪkʃʌn

(literature) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
(law) A legal fiction.

Examples of "fiction" in Sentences

How and if the Holocaust should be handled in fiction is the crux of the novel.
The story is fiction or fact -- if _fiction_, why has it not been nailed to the wall?
Media tie-in fiction is like any other kind of fiction - it has good books and bad ones.
BUT, where it gets distracting for me — and IMO bad for commercial fiction — is where the *commercial* aspect outweighs the *fiction* aspect.
Humans are also preoccupied by fantasy & fiction of all types, even especially? knowing that it is *fiction*, we do not have to hypothesize a platonic realm to explain that...
It could be argued that "unity" of consciousness in fiction is actually a false representation of actual human consciousness, which is likely much more disunifed than we want to think.
Chronicling the rise and fall of trends in fiction is not necessarily a trivial activity, but inDickstein's case the single-mindedmanner in which he pursues the task does threaten to makecriticisman intellectual version of fashion journalism.