denotation.
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something invented by the imagination or feigned
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etymology.
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early 15c., ficcioun; “invented or imagined in the mind”
Old French, ficcion; “invention, fabrication”
Latin, fictionem (nominative fictio); “fashioning, forming”
past participle stem, fingere; “dress, knead (dough), instruct”
PIE root, *dʰeyǵʰ “to form, mold.”

*PIE (Proto-Indo-European)