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fiction

noun
  1. An illusory mental image: daydream, dream, fancy, fantasy, figment, illusion, phantasm, phantasma, reverie, vision. See real
  2. Any fictitious idea accepted as part of an ideology by an uncritical group; a received idea: creation, fantasy, figment, invention, myth. See belief, real
  3. An untrue declaration: canard, cock-and-bull story, falsehood, falsity, fib, inveracity, lie 2, misrepresentation, misstatement, prevarication, story, tale, untruth. Informal: fish story, tall tale. Slang: whopper. See true
  4. A narrative not based on fact: fable, story. See real

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