<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, especially in prose form</li><li>works of this class, as novels or short stories: detective fiction</li><li>something feigned, invented, or imagined; a made-up story: We've all heard the fiction of her being in delicate health</li><li>the act of feigning, inventing, or imagining</li><li>an imaginary thing or event, postulated for the purposes of argument or explanation</li><li>Law: an allegation that a fact exists that is known not to exist, made by authority of law to bring a case within the operation of a rule of law</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms</strong></p><ul><li>fantasy</li><li>fable</li></ul><p><strong>Antonyms</strong></p><ul><li>fact</li></ul>