Synonyms for fiction
Definitions
- n. 1
Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
I am a great reader of fiction.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- fictions → romances, stories, fabrications, fables…
Choose the right word
All these are, in strict definition, fictions; but the word fiction is now applied almost exclusively to novels or romances.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- romance I have studied all the national Romance languages.
- tale Sami has been living a fairy-tale life with Layla.
- myth There's a myth that Edison invented the light bulb.
- fable Who doesn't know the fable "The Fox and the Grapes"?
- pretense He made a pretense of knowing my father.
By length
- 3 letters
- lie1
- 4 letters
- tale1, myth1
- 5 letters
- story2, fable2
- 6 letters
- legend2
- 7 letters
- romance2, figment2, falsity3, untruth2
- 8 letters
- allegory4, pretense2, pretence, apologue
- 9 letters
- invention3, falsehood2, falseness
- 10 letters
- concoction3
- 11 letters
- fabrication4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (story2 = 2 syllables).