non-fact
noun[CorU]
(alsononfact)uk/ˌnɒnˈfækt/us/ˌnɑːnˈfækt/something that is said to be afactbut for which noproofexistsor about which there is noinformation:
Theclaimswereshownto bebasedon anumberof non-facts.
It hasbecomedifficulttodistinguishfactfrom non-fact.
- This non-fact waspopularizedby some 19th-centuryhistorians.
- Acriticalapproachisrequiredasevensomeexpertsmayinadvertentlypresenta nonfact as afact.
- Theychallengedthe non-fact that she had beenabroadat thetime.
Unreal things and unreality
- birther
- cloud cuckoo land
- delusion
- delusional
- dummy
- false hopes
- falsity
- fantasy
- fictionalization
- figment
- la-la land
- make believephrase
- never-never land
- non-factual
- parallel universe
- pie
- pie in the skyidiom
- unreality
- untruth
- Wayback Machine