different between fiction vs fictionist
fiction
English
Etymology
From Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion (“dissimulation, ruse, invention”), from Latin ficti? (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”), from fing? (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: f?k?-sh?n, IPA(key): /?f?k.??n/
- Hyphenation: fic?tion
- Rhymes: -?k??n
Noun
fiction (countable and uncountable, plural fictions)
- Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
- (uncountable) A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
- (law) A legal fiction.
Synonyms
- fabrication
- figment
Antonyms
- documentary
- fact
- non-fiction
- truth
Hypernyms
- literary type
Hyponyms
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
Derived terms
- fictitious
- fictional
- non-fiction
Related terms
- fiction section
Descendants
- ? Irish: ficsean
- ? Scottish Gaelic: ficsean
Translations
Further reading
- fiction in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- fiction in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- fiction at OneLook Dictionary Search
- "fiction" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 134.
French
Etymology
From Old French, borrowed from Latin fictionem (nominative of fictio).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fik.sj??/
Noun
fiction f (plural fictions)
- fiction
Related terms
- fictif
- science-fiction
Further reading
- “fiction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
fiction From the web:
- what fictional character are you
- what fictional character do i look like
- what fiction means
- what fiction book should i read
- what fictional character would you be
- what fictional character am i essay
- what fictional character am i buzzfeed
- what fictional characters are infp
fictionist
English
Etymology
From fiction +? -ist.
Noun
fictionist (plural fictionists)
- One who deals in fiction; a writer of fiction, a novelist.
- 1989, Christopher Hitchens, ‘Siding with Rushdie’, London Review of Books, vol. 11, no. 20:
- Just as the Muslim world was vibrating to the ‘insult’ visited on the Prophet Muhamed (Peace Be Upon Him) by an Anglo-Pakistani fictionist of genius and renown, the British and American mass audience was thrilling to the reborn version of David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia.
- 1989, Christopher Hitchens, ‘Siding with Rushdie’, London Review of Books, vol. 11, no. 20:
Translations
fictionist From the web:
- fictionist meaning
- what does fiction mean
- what do fictionist mean
- what does fictitious mean
- what does fictionist
- non fiction list
- fictionist definition
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- fiction vs fictionist
- epitomical vs epitomic
- epitomic vs epitopic
- embody vs epitomic
- epitomic vs epitome
- nightmarish vs nightmarelike
- nightmarishness vs nightmarish
- nightmarishly vs nightmarish
- nightmarish vs hellish
- nightmarish vs nightmare
- lbw vs lbf
- lbf vs lif
- lbm vs lbf
- lbs vs lbf
- london vs lbf
- choky vs choke
- cooky vs choky
- choly vs choky
- hoky vs choky
- coky vs cory