| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. An illusory mental image: daydream, dream, fancy, fantasy, figment, illusion, phantasm, phantasma, reverie, vision. See REAL. 2. A narrative not based on fact: fable, story. See REAL. 3. An untrue declaration: canard, cock-and-bull story, falsehood, falsity, fib, inveracity, lie2, misrepresentation, misstatement, prevarication, story, tale, untruth. Informal : fish story, tall tale. Slang : whopper. See TRUE. 4. Any fictitious idea accepted as part of an ideology by an uncritical group; a received idea: creation, fantasy, figment, invention, myth. See BELIEF, REAL.
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