English-Italian translations for fiction

• finzione
  La sicurezza nucleare è, e rimane, più una finzione che una realtà. Nuclear safety is and remains more fiction than reality.
  Preferisco votare per la realtà e non per la finzione e, poiché certe persone vogliono offuscare la verità con la finzione politica, ho votato contro. I prefer to vote for fact and not fiction and, because certain people wish to obscure the truth with political fiction, I have voted against.
  Se l'autocompiacimento e la finzione fossero strumenti di ripresa economica, potremmo definirlo un successo. If self-satisfaction and fiction were instruments of economic recovery, then we might call it a success.

Definition of fiction

• Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose
• A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead
• A legal fiction

Examples

• The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
• I am a great reader of fiction.
• The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.

Related words

• fictional
• non-fiction
• autofiction
• fanfiction
• fictionary
• nonfiction
• metafiction
• fictionally
• nonfictional