myth

Main Entry:
myth [mith]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fictitious story, often ancient
Synonyms: allegory, apologue, creation, delusion, fable, fabrication, fairy story, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, folk ballad, folk tale, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, lore, mythos, parable, saga, superstition, tale, tall story, tradition
Antonyms: fact, non-fiction, truth
Main Entry: fable
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fantasy, story
Synonyms: allegory, apologue, bestiary, bunk, crock, fabrication, fairy story, fairy tale, falsehood, fantasy, fib, fiction, figment, fish story, hogwash, invention, legend, lie, myth, old chestnut, old saw, one for the birds, parable, romance, tale, tall story, untruth, white lie, whopper, yarn
Notes: a fable is a short instructional tale, while a fairytale (or fairy tale) is told as amusement
Antonyms: truth
Main Entry: fabrication
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lie
Synonyms: artifact, concoction, deceit, fable, fairy story, fake*, falsehood, fib, fiction, figment, forgery, hogwash, invention, jazz, jive, line*, myth, opus, smoke*, song and dance, untruth, work, yarn
Antonyms: truth
Main Entry: fiction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: made-up story
Synonyms: anecdote, best seller, book, cliff-hanger, clothesline, concoction, crock, drama, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fib, figment of imagination, fish story, hooey, imagination, improvisation, invention, legend, lie, misrepresentation, myth, narrative, novel, potboiler, prevarication, romance, smoke*, storytelling, tale, tall story, terminological inexactitude, untruth, whopper, work of imagination, yarn
Antonyms: non-fiction, truth
Main Entry: folklore
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: tales from the past
Synonyms: ballad, custom, fable, folk story, legend, myth, mythology, mythos, oral literature, superstition, tradition, wisdom
Main Entry: illusion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: false appearance; false belief
Synonyms: apparition, bubble*, chimera, confusion, daydream, deception, delusion, déjè vu, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment of imagination, fool's paradise, ghost, hallucination, head trip, hocus-pocus, idolism, ignus fatuus, image, invention, make-believe, mirage, misapprehension, misbelief, misconception, misimpression, mockery, myth, optical illusion, paramnesia, phantasm, pipe dream, rainbow*, seeming, semblance, trip*, virtual reality
Notes: allusion is an 'indirect mention,' illusion is 'false impression,' and delusion is 'deception' which is much stronger than illusion
an illusion is an image or conception of something actual or real that presents itself to the mind in an abnormal or distorted manner; a delusion is a false belief about oneself or other people that persists despite its being at variance with the facts
Antonyms: certainty, event, fact, reality, truth
Main Entry: legend
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: story of the past, often fictitious
Synonyms: fable, fiction, folk story, folk tale, folklore, lore, myth, mythology, mythos, narrative, saga, tale, tradition
Main Entry: lie
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: untruth
Synonyms: aspersion, backbiting, calumniation, calumny, deceit, deception, defamation, detraction, dishonesty, disinformation, distortion, evasion, fable, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, falsification, falsity, fib, fiction, forgery, fraudulence, guile, hyperbole, inaccuracy, invention, libel, mendacity, misrepresentation, misstatement, myth, obloquy, perjury, prevarication, revilement, reviling, slander, subterfuge, tale, tall story, vilification, white lie, whopper
Notes: to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline
Antonyms: honesty, truth
Main Entry: old wives' tale
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: superstition
Synonyms: fairy story, fallacy, false belief, folk tale, folklore, legend, lore, myth, notion, tall story, tall tale
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