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n. An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.

n. The act of inventing such a creation or pretense.

n. A lie.

n. A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact.

n. The category of literature comprising works of this kind, including novels and short stories.

n. Law Something untrue that is intentionally represented as true by the narrator.

n. Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.

n. Invention.

n. The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining.

n. That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality.

n. Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.

n. An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.

n. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.

n. The act of making or fashioning.

n. The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; a false deduction or conclusion: as, to be misled by a mere fiction of the brain.

n. That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; a feigned story; an account which is a product of mere imagination; a false statement.

n. In literature: A prose work (not dramatic) of the imagination in narrative form; a story; a novel.

n. Collectively, literature consisting of imaginative narration; story-telling.

n. In a wide sense, not now current, any literary product of the imagination, whether in prose or verse, or in a narrative or dramatic form, or such works collectively.

n. In law, the intentional assuming as a fact of what is not such (the truth of the matter not being considered), for the purpose of administering justice without contravening settled rules or making apparent exceptions; a legal device for reforming or extending the application of the law without appearing to alter the law itself.

n. Synonyms Fabrication, figment, fable, untruth, falsehood.

n. a deliberately false or improbable account

n. a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

"BUT, where it gets distracting for me — and IMO bad for commercial fiction — is where the *commercial* aspect outweighs the *fiction* aspect."

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