Fiction

Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.

Neil Gaiman

Etymology English Link to heading

• “that which is invented or imagined in the mind,”
• “dissimulation, ruse; invention, fabrication”
• “a fashioning or feigning,”
• “to shape, form, devise, feign,”
• “to knead, form out of clay,”

Meaning “prose works (not dramatic) of the imagination” sense of “the part of literature comprising novels and short stories based on imagined scenes or characters”

legal sense (fiction of law) literal notion “worked by hand,” figurative senses of “invented in the mind; artificial, not natural”

• “made of clay, earthen;”

• “master of deceit;”

• “a deception, falsehood; fiction.”

Etymologie Deutsch Link to heading

“Annahme, Unterstellung, Erdichtung”,

als juristischer und wissenschaftlicher Terminus aus lat. fictio

• “Bildung, Gestaltung, Erdichtung”
• “bilden, erdichten, vorgeben”,

science fiction ‘utopische Dichtung auf wissenschaftlicher Grundlage’

Etimología Español Link to heading

La palabra “ficción” viene del latín fictio y significa “acción y efecto de pretender que algo es cierto, cuando en verdad no lo es”.

Étymologie Française Link to heading

• “tromperie, duperie”
• “fait imaginé”
• “fait qui résulte d’une convention”
• “action de façonner; action de feindre”
• “fiction légale”

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