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fiction

fic.tion \'fik-sh*n\ \-shn*l, -sh*n-*l\ \-e-\ n [ME ficcioun, fr. MF 
   fiction, fr. L fiction-, fictio ac]t of fashioning, fiction, fr. fictus, 
   pp. of fingere to shape, fashion, feign - more at DOUGH 1a: something 
   invented by the imagination or feigned; specif : an i nvented story 1b: 
   fictitious literature (as novels or short stories)  2: an assumption of a 
   possibility as a fact irrespective of the question of  its truth 3: the 
   action of feigning or of creating with the imagination  - fic.tion.al aj