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Fiction

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Fiction - Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.

Fiction - The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.

Fiction - An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.

Fiction - 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.

Fiction - Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.


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