noun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb surutransitive verbnouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'fiction;fabrication;concoction
ボブは酷く取り乱していて、現実と虚構の区別がほとんど出来なかった。
Bob was so beside himself that he could scarcely tell fact from fiction.