·noun The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.
II. Fiction ·noun An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.
III. Fiction ·noun Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.
IV. Fiction ·noun Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.
V. Fiction ·noun 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.