[ˈfɪkʃn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- literature in the form of prose that describes imaginary events and people

- something that is invented or untrue
(e.g: they were supposed to be keeping up the fiction that they were happily married)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘invented statement’): via Old French from Latin fictio(n-), from fingere ‘form, contrive’. Compare with feign and figment