different between literati vs fiction

English

Etymology

From the plural of Latin litter?tus (“lettered, literate”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?t.?????.ti?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?t????ti/

Noun

literati pl (plural only) (singular literatus or literato)

1. Well-educated, literary people; intellectuals who are interested in literature.

Antonyms

• illiterati

Derived terms

Translations

Latin

Adjective

liter?t?

1. nominative masculine plural of liter?tus
2. genitive masculine singular of liter?tus
3. genitive neuter singular of liter?tus
4. vocative masculine plural of liter?tus

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)

1. Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
2. (uncountable) A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).

3. (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)

1. fiction

Related terms

• fictif
• science-fiction

Further reading

• “fiction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).