fictitiousness
Definition
- Noun: The quality or state of being fictitious; the condition of being invented, imagined, or not real.
Usage Examples
- (The invented nature of the world in the book was clear.)
- (Scholars argued about whether the stories were made up.)
- (The director admitted the story was not based on fact.)
Advanced Usage
"to expose the fictitiousness of something": to reveal that something is not real or true.
- The journalist's investigation exposed the fictitiousness of the company's claims. (The inquiry showed that the claims were false.)
"a sense of fictitiousness": a feeling or impression that something is unreal or invented.
- The dream had a strange sense of fictitiousness, even as it felt vivid. (The dream seemed unreal despite its clarity.)
Variants and Related Words
Fictitious (adj): invented, not real.
- The character was entirely fictitious. (The character was made up, not based on a real person.)
Fiction (n): literature or stories that are invented; something that is not true.
- She prefers reading fiction over non-fiction. (She enjoys invented stories rather than factual accounts.)
Fictional (adj): relating to or characteristic of fiction; invented.
- The fictional town of Mayberry is famous in television history. (The town is a creation of the show's writers.)
Synonyms
- Fabrication: the act of inventing something false; something that is made up.
- Falsity: the quality of being untrue or deceptive.
- Unreality: the state of not being real or actual.
- Invention: something created from the imagination, not based on fact.
Related Idioms
"a figment of the imagination": something that someone has imagined, not real.
- The monster was just a figment of the child's imagination. (The monster was not real, only imagined.)
"a flight of fancy": an idea or story that is imaginative but not realistic.
- His plan to build a castle in the clouds was a flight of fancy. (His plan was unrealistic and fanciful.)