Definition for Fiction:

• An assumption or supposition of law that something which is or may befalse is true, or that a state of facts exists-which has never really taken place. New Hampshire Strafford Bank v. Cornell, 2 N. H.324; Hibberd v. Smith, 07 Cal. 547, 4 Pac. 473, 56 Am. Rep. 720.A fiction is a rule of law which assumes as true, and will not allow to be disproved,something which is false, but not impossible. Best, Ev. 419.These assumptions are of an innocent or even beneficial character, and are madefor the advancement of the ends of justice. They secure this end chiefly by theextension of procedure from cases to which it is applicable to other cases to which it isnot strictly applicable, the ground of inapplicability being some difference of animmaterial character. Brown.Fictions are to be distinguished from presumptions of law. By the former, somethingknown to be false or unreal is assumed as true; by the latter, an inference is set up,which may be and probably is true, but which, at any rate, the law will not permit to be controverted.Mr. Best distinguishes legal fictions from presumptions juris et de jure, and dividesthem into three kinds,

Synonyms for Fiction:

• n.

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  • untruth,
  • adaptation,
  • drama,
  • detective,
  • classic,
  • fantasy,
  • comedy,
  • black comedy.
  •
  • illusion,
  • reverie,
  • Phantasm,
  • vision,
  • fancy,
  • real.
  •
  • belief.
  •
  • true.
  •communication (noun)
  • fiction.
  •composition (noun)
  • literary work,
  • verse,
  • concerto,
  • rhapsody,
  • short story,
  • symphony,
  • thesis,
  • short stories,
  • cantatas,
  • Concertos,
  • literary works,
  • Melodies,
  • song,
  • Rhapsodies,
  • music,
  • cantata.
  •fable (noun)
  • un truth,
  • one for bird,
  • un-truth,
  • fairy stories,
  • bestiaries,
  • un-truths,
  • old chestnut,
  • old saws,
  • old saw,
  • one for the birds,
  • tall story,
  • one for birds,
  • old chestnuts,
  • fable,
  • tall stories,
  • hogwash,
  • un truths,
  • fairy story,
  • one for the bird,
  • bestiary.
  •fabrication (noun)
  • fabrication,
  • Artifacts,
  • artifact,
  • jives,
  • song dance.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • deceit,
  • duplicity,
  • crookedness,
  • fraudulence,
  • dishonesty,
  • phoniness,
  • falsehood,
  • figment,
  • deceptiveness,
  • delusion.
  •fib (noun)
  • mis representation,
  • mis-representation,
  • mis-representations,
  • spinaches,
  • spinach,
  • mis representations.
  •fiction of the mind (noun)
  • figment of the imagination.
  •fictitious story, often ancient (noun)
  • myth.
  •figment (noun)
  • castle in air,
  • castle the air,
  • castle air,
  • Illusions.
  •figment of the imagination (noun)
  • creature the imagination,
  • phantom mind,
  • wildest dream,
  • phantom of mind,
  • creation the brain,
  • creature of the imagination,
  • wildest dreams,
  • creation of brain,
  • creature of imagination,
  • creation brain,
  • creation of the brain,
  • phantom of the mind,
  • figment-imagination,
  • phantom the mind,
  • figment imagination,
  • figment the imagination,
  • figment of imagination,
  • creature imagination.
  •phantasma (noun)
  • mental pictures,
  • pie in sky,
  • mental picture,
  • pie sky,
  • pie the sky.
  •romance (noun)
  • melodrama,
  • lyrics,
  • idyll,
  • romance,
  • melodramas,
  • idylls,
  • tearjerker,
  • tearjerkers,
  • love story,
  • tear-jerker,
  • tear jerkers,
  • love stories,
  • tear-jerkers,
  • tear jerker.
  •rumor (noun)
  • back fence talk,
  • backfence talk,
  • back fence talks,
  • dis-patches,
  • dis-patch,
  • back-fence talk,
  • rumors,
  • back-fence talks,
  • backfence talks,
  • earful,
  • dis patch,
  • dis patches,
  • earfuls.
  •story (noun)
  • folktale,
  • Conte,
  • conti,
  • news items,
  • in formations,
  • news item,
  • cock and bull story,
  • folktales,
  • epic,
  • auto-biography,
  • re-cords,
  • auto biographies,
  • in-formation,
  • re cord,
  • re cords,
  • auto biography,
  • in-formations,
  • re-cord,
  • tale,
  • memoir,
  • serials,
  • in formation,
  • auto-biographies.
  •story, tale (noun)
  • narrative.
  •story of the past, often fictitious (noun)
  • legend.
  •tale (noun)
  • chestnuts,
  • clotheslines,
  • clothesline,
  • chestnut.
  •written, nonrhythmic literature (noun)
  • prose.
  •written or musical creation (noun)
  • composition.

• Other synonyms:

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  • hardbound,
  • softbound,
  • unabridged,
  • spiral-bound,
  • loose-leaf,
  • unpublished,
  • cock-and-bull story,
  • unputdownable,
  • fish story,
  • canard,
  • bookends,
  • bookrest,
  • well-thumbed.
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  • feature,
  • tall tale,
  • misrepresentation,
  • Phantasma,
  • fib,
  • daydream,
  • misstatement,
  • encyclopedic,
  • bookmark,
  • subtitled,
  • Inveracity,
  • rumor.
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  • unreadable,
  • whopper,
  • falsity.
  •
  • pop up,
  • bound.
  •
  • reference.
  •
  • set.

Paraphrases for Fiction:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    novel.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    novel.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    SCI-FI, fabrication, presumption, story, assumption, sham, unreal.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    imagination, fantasy.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    invention, imagination, drama, Dramas, literature, pretence, fantasy, illusion.

Antonyms for Fiction:

• n.

  • made-up story
    truth, non-fiction, reality.
  • Other antonyms:
    certainty, materiality, actuality, record, literalness, verity, narrative, realness, chronicle, history.

Fiction Sentence Examples:

• Of course I know that lovers are the life of fiction, and that a story of any kind can scarcely hold the reader without them.

• I tell you no poetic fiction.

Hypernym for Fiction:

• n.

  • communication
    fantasy, phantasy, utopia, story, dystopia, novel.

Hyponym for Fiction:

• n.

  • communication
    literary work, literary composition.