ficticias

Ficticias is the feminine plural form of the Spanish adjective ficticio, used to describe things that are not real or are products of imagination. It agrees with feminine nouns in number and gender, as in historias ficticias, ciudades ficticias, or ideas ficticias. The masculine form is ficticios and the neuter form ficticio.

Etymology and usage

The term derives from Latin ficticius, from fingere “to shape, pretend.” In Spanish, ficticio and its feminine forms are widely used to distinguish what exists only in imagination, in storytelling, or in hypothetical or illustrative contexts. Ficticias can function as modifiers for plural feminine nouns and are common in literary, scholarly, and media language.

Contexts and examples

In literature and film, ficticias frequently describe elements of world-building, such as ciudades ficticias or personajes ficticios. In academic writing, one might contrast hechos reales with datos ficticios used for demonstrations or testing. In everyday language, phrases like "conceptos ficticios" or "escenarios ficticias" appear when discussing hypothetical or invented material.

Related terms

Related forms include ficticia (feminine singular), ficticio (masculine singular), and ficticios (masculine plural). The concept is closely connected to ficcional or ficcional, which appear in contexts referring to fictional works or structures. Ficticias also intersects with ficción, the broader noun for fiction, encompassing the realm of invented narratives and falsehoods treated as narrative rather than fact.