fiction

noun

any story or setting that is derived from imagination, can be conveyed through any medium
concept and study of written works that are in some capacity imaginary

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈfɪkʃən/ / [ˈfɪkʃən] ~ [ˈfɪkʃn̩]

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *dʰi-né-ǵʰ-ti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction From Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion (“dissimulation, ruse, invention”), from Latin fictiō (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”), from fingō (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”). Displaced native Old English lēasspell (literally “false story”); see feign, feint, figment.

Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
“I am a great reader of fiction.”
“the fiction section of the library”
A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
“The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.”
“The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.”
A legal fiction.