Chimera and Fiction

Chimera

Chimera noun - A conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality.

Usage example: a monster in the closet would not have been the first chimera that the boy had seen in his mind's eye

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Fiction and chimera are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fiction" instead a noun "Chimera".

Nearby Word: chimerical

Fiction noun - Something that is the product of the imagination.

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Chimera and fiction are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Chimera" instead a noun "Fiction".

Nearby Words: fictitious, fictional, fictionally

original	original chimera	original fiction
true	true chimera	true fiction
actual	actual chimera	actual fiction
novel	novel chimera	novel fiction
Other adjectives: new, military.

The Chimera (who resembles a three-headed monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent) is probably the most prominent of these, to the extent that a number of works of fiction use "Chimera" as a generic term for Mix And Match Critters of all sorts.

Source: Mix-and-Match Critters

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