the act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.-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.-fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.-an assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.-any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.