fiction vs hieroglyphic

fiction

noun
  • Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose. 

  • A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead). 

  • A legal fiction. 

hieroglyphic

noun
  • A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus 

  • Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol. 

  • Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph. 

adj
  • difficult to decipher 

  • of, relating to, or written with this system of symbols 

How often have the words fiction and hieroglyphic occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )