(n.) The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.
(n.) An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.
(n.) Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
(2) Clute and Harrison took a scalpel to the flaws of the science fiction we loved, and we loved them for it.
(3) But it is now widely understood this Thanksgiving story is a fictional history.
(4) The fact that Line of Duty is ranked among the best TV fiction for years suggests there is no crisis with the channel.
(5) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(6) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(7) He added: "There will be all sorts of science fiction writers who will give their own opinions on what this means, but we don't want to enter that game."
(8) An Artist of the Floating World won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was nominated for the Booker prize for fiction; The Remains of the Day won the Booker; and When We Were Orphans, perceived by many reviewers as a disappointment, was nominated for both the Booker and the Whitbread.
(9) DynaTAC became the phone of choice for fictional psychopaths, including Wall Street's Gordon Gekko, American Psycho's Patrick Bateman and Saved by the Bell's Zack Morris.
(10) As a critic, he reviewed crime fiction for the Times from 1967 to 1983.
(11) Haki's naivety about English detective fiction is more than matched by Latimer's ingenuous excitement as Haki describes to him Dimitrios's sordid career, and he decides it would be fun to write the gangster's biography.
(12) Subjects made probability ratings for fictional others who were heavy, moderate, or light drinkers or nondrinkers.
(13) And anyway, if her fictional world is so timeless, why has it gone in and out of fashion?
(14) Austen couldn't avoid them, nor does her fiction try to.
(15) But the new creative director of BBC Films, promoted to the role after last week's BBC fiction shakeup , seems to harbour no such industry-appropriate urges.
(16) 23 May More films to see in 2014 • 2014 preview: thrillers • 2014 preview: comedy • 2014 preview: Oscar hopefuls • 2014 preview: science fiction • 2014 preview: romance • 2014 preview: drama • This article was amended on Thursday 2 January 2014.
(17) I think he’s one of those people in life who simply doesn’t really understand the difference between fact and fiction.
(18) The problem of consciousness is discussed briefly, including the contrary views of consciousness as a transcendental phenomenon and as an animistic fiction.
(19) Critical verdict The Tin Drum catapulted Grass to the forefront of European fiction and since then he has been Germany's "permanent Nobel candidate"; of the remainder of the Danzig trilogy, Cat and Mouse is the best regarded.
(20) It is tempting to visualise the yawning gap between the real-life equivalents of the fictional Chatsworth Estate, where Shameless is set, and Green Templeton College, Oxford, where Walker works.
Literati
Definition:
(n. pl.) Learned or literary men. See Literatus.
(pl. ) of Literatus
Example Sentences:
(1) The so-called literati aren't insular – this from a woman who ran the security service – but we aren't going to apologise for what we believe in either.
(2) The view of most people I've talked to is that he's improved the paper and there is a grudging respect for what he's done among what I would call the literati of US journalism."
(3) Opened by cousins Jack Kriendler and Charlie Berns in a row of brownstones on 1 January 1930, 21 has continued to draw the literati and glitterati to 52nd Street – nicknamed “Swing Street” – home to more than 30 speakeasies.
(4) Chris "Zipalong" Mullin invoked that illusory enemy, the "London literati" (I live in Belfast, so can disagree with him without fear of recrimination).
(5) This writer, not long from a very provincial colony, lost any residual awe for the metropolitan literati at a stroke.
(6) In this late life-time, he corresponded with scientists, literati, musicians, his son, and his grand-duke CARL AUGUST.
(7) Christensen said in a statement: “Styling themselves as ‘prominent Australians’, these elitist wankers include investment bankers, CEOs of major corporations such as Telstra, pretentious literati, professional activists and has-been celebrities.
(8) Today, this would be a telltale sign that a smidgen of marriage counselling might be in order, but in those dark, pre-therapy days such aid was not available to the literati.
(9) Here, a politician would get an aide to compile a list of books they were supposed to have read on holiday (cools ones to impress the literati, best-sellers to impress the rest) and then release it to the papers.
(10) He was partial to one of Ireland’s most iconic properties when in town, as were many of the visiting literati throughout the years, including William Makepeace Thackeray.
(11) Rimington, ably supported by Mullin, has effortlessly enraged the "London literati", inspiring headlines such as "Booker in crisis".
(12) They lived in the world of ideas, where Clifford's insubstantial writing had brought him a certain celebrity among the well-to-do London literati.
(13) His real market is in India where, still scorned by the literati, he is known to virtually every college student.
(14) The trouble is we should never underestimate the conservatism of the literati ...
(15) Indeed, this was less a book launch with wine-sipping literati than a raucous anti-Zuma rally attended by top dissidents Tokyo Sexwale, Mathews Phosa and rebels from the ANC youth league.
(16) This new middle-class audience – small entrepreneurs, managers, travel agents, salespeople, secretaries, clerks – has an appetite for literary entertainment that falls between the elite idiom of the cultivated literati, who might be familiar with the novels of Amitav Ghosh or Salman Rushdie, and the Indian English of the street and the supermarket.
(17) The Golden Notebook "We should never underestimate the conservatism of the literati ...
(18) Once more following the Sophien-Ausgabe of Weimar, Author gives an extract from GOETHE's Letters to literati, scientists, and princes of his time, concerning notices on his employment about sciences without botany.