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.

  •
  • fantasy,
  • invention,
  • drama,
  • lie,
  • untruth.
  •
  • daydream,
  • dream,
  • Phantasm,
  • vision,
  • illusion,
  • Phantasma,
  • reverie,
  • fancy.
  •
  • creation.
  •
  • cock-and-bull story,
  • misstatement,
  • canard,
  • Inveracity,
  • misrepresentation,
  • fish story,
  • tall tale,
  • whopper,
  • falsity,
  • fib.
  •book (noun)
  • publication,
  • nonfiction.
  •composition (noun)
  • short story,
  • literary work.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • deceit,
  • duplicity,
  • crookedness,
  • fraudulence,
  • dishonesty,
  • phoniness,
  • falsehood,
  • figment,
  • deceptiveness,
  • delusion.
  •fiction (noun)
  • fabrication,
  • fable.
  •made-up story (noun)
  • smoke,
  • legend,
  • misrepresentation,
  • fabrication,
  • tall story,
  • fib,
  • cliff-hanger,
  • falsehood,
  • whopper,
  • lie,
  • fish story,
  • book,
  • potboiler,
  • fable,
  • storytelling,
  • crock,
  • work of imagination,
  • invention,
  • fantasy,
  • clothesline,
  • tale,
  • romance,
  • narrative,
  • imagination,
  • novel,
  • figment of imagination,
  • yarn,
  • anecdote,
  • untruth,
  • hooey,
  • terminological inexactitude,
  • improvisation,
  • fancy,
  • concoction,
  • myth,
  • prevarication,
  • drama.
  •prose (noun)
  • epic,
  • saga,
  • storyline,
  • legend,
  • short story,
  • plot,
  • novel,
  • yarn,
  • retelling,
  • account,
  • tale,
  • reading matter,
  • plainness,
  • recount,
  • serial,
  • allegory,
  • episode,
  • reminiscence,
  • romance,
  • prosaicness,
  • story,
  • scenario,
  • parable,
  • narrative,
  • anecdote,
  • fable,
  • prose,
  • myth,
  • chronicle,
  • novella.
  •untruth (noun)
  • lie.

• Other synonyms:

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  • cock-and-bull story,
  • loose-leaf,
  • unabridged,
  • canard,
  • fish story,
  • unpublished,
  • unputdownable,
  • lie,
  • bookrest.
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  • fantasy,
  • tall tale,
  • misrepresentation,
  • Inveracity,
  • fib,
  • Phantasma,
  • misstatement,
  • encyclopedic,
  • bookmark,
  • daydream,
  • untruth,
  • rumor.
  •
  • reverie,
  • unreadable,
  • falsity,
  • whopper,
  • Phantasm.
  •
  • fancy,
  • illusion,
  • dream.
  •
  • invention,
  • vision,
  • bound.
  •
  • creation.
  •
  • set.
  •Other relevant words:
  • imagination,
  • printout,
  • document,
  • concoction,
  • forgery,
  • little white lie,
  • contrivance,
  • deception,
  • farrago,
  • claptrap,
  • traveler,
  • fantasy,
  • vapour,
  • figment of the imagination,
  • prevarication,
  • extravaganza,
  • mythos,
  • equivocation,
  • dream,
  • space opera,
  • opus,
  • falsification,
  • crock,
  • piece of writing,
  • engrossment,
  • adventure story,
  • fictionalization,
  • drama,
  • appearance,
  • brainchild,
  • fib,
  • space fiction,
  • hooey,
  • sell,
  • fairy tale,
  • critique,
  • draughty,
  • lie,
  • bookmark,
  • typescript,
  • balderdash,
  • apologue,
  • Fabliau,
  • evasiveness,
  • hum,
  • cliff-hanger,
  • fairyland,
  • fallaciousness,
  • distortion,
  • autograph,
  • creation,
  • mendaciousness,
  • trumped up story,
  • manufacture,
  • penny dreadful,
  • draught,
  • encyclopedic,
  • unreadable,
  • flimsy,
  • Inveracity,
  • whodunit,
  • original,
  • tall story,
  • illusion,
  • clothesline,
  • rumor,
  • bookrest,
  • make-believe,
  • nonfiction,
  • mystery story,
  • idyll,
  • fairy story,
  • publication,
  • matter,
  • printed matter,
  • literary work,
  • misstatement,
  • invention,
  • draughtsman,
  • script,
  • version,
  • storytelling,
  • production,
  • cock-and-bull story,
  • writings,
  • play,
  • editorial,
  • wildest dream,
  • writing,
  • pie-in-the-sky,
  • hope,
  • vapor,
  • pipe dream,
  • SCI-FI,
  • column,
  • Phantasma,
  • shave,
  • horse opera,
  • nonsense,
  • potboiler,
  • imagery,
  • unputdownable,
  • unpublished,
  • work,
  • improvisation,
  • Eidolon,
  • scroll,
  • computer printout,
  • bound,
  • phantom,
  • Imagining,
  • trip,
  • whopper,
  • final draft,
  • hallucination,
  • fabrication,
  • penscript,
  • device,
  • Gest,
  • untruth,
  • review,
  • thriller,
  • wildest dreams,
  • horror story,
  • maggot,
  • lucubration,
  • literature,
  • Blague,
  • holograph,
  • screed,
  • science fiction,
  • metaphor,
  • loose-leaf,
  • farfetched story,
  • Flam,
  • apparition,
  • masquerade,
  • assembly,
  • journalism,
  • draft,
  • Phantasm,
  • whim,
  • fish tale,
  • piece,
  • poem,
  • fair copy,
  • shocker,
  • unabridged,
  • mystery,
  • whimsy,
  • tradition,
  • smoke,
  • book,
  • tall tale,
  • copy,
  • western,
  • sham,
  • Arabian Nights,
  • phantasy,
  • criticism,
  • manuscript,
  • first draft,
  • flimflam,
  • reverie,
  • transcript,
  • layer,
  • set,
  • poetry,
  • illustration,
  • mendacity,
  • folktale,
  • folk story,
  • misrepresentation,
  • fake,
  • mythology,
  • legal fiction,
  • vision,
  • history,
  • bedtime story,
  • exaggeration,
  • pretence,
  • article,
  • parchment,
  • figment of imagination,
  • happy valley,
  • correspondence,
  • bubble,
  • taradiddle,
  • canard,
  • composition,
  • melodrama,
  • terminological inexactitude,
  • ghost story,
  • half-truth,
  • Fictitiousness,
  • theme,
  • love story,
  • white lie,
  • fancy,
  • chimera,
  • Recension,
  • essay,
  • delirium,
  • letter,
  • flight of fancy,
  • paper,
  • daydream,
  • scrip,
  • fish story,
  • transcription,
  • millennium,
  • dime novel,
  • lying,
  • fantasque,
  • detective story,
  • falsity,
  • work of imagination.

Antonyms for Fiction:

• n.

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

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    non-fiction.