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| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | falsehood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lie |
| Synonyms: | canard, cover-up, deceit, deception, dishonesty, dissimulation, distortion, equivocation, erroneousness, error, fable, fabrication, fakery, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, feigning, fib, fibbery, fiction, figment, fraud, half truth, hogwash, line, mendacity, misstatement, perjury, pretense, prevarication, sham*, story, tale, tall tale, untruism, untruth, untruthfulness, whopper, yarn |
| Notes: | a falsehood is a false statement, a lie, or untruth; falseness is the state of being false or untrue |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | figment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | bubble*, castle in the air, chimera, daydream, dream, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fiction, illusion, improvisation, invention, lie, nightmare, production |
| Antonyms: | reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | lore |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | myths, traditional wisdom |
| Synonyms: | adage, belief, custom, doctrine, enlightenment, erudition, experience, fable, folklore, information, knowledge, learning, legend, letters, mythology, mythos, saga, saw, saying, scholarship, science, superstition, tale, teaching, tradition |
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