Fact vs. Fiction

Factnoun

(archaic) Action; the realm of action.

Factnoun

A wrongful or criminal deed.

Factnoun

(obsolete) A feat or meritorious deed.

Factnoun

An honest observation.

Factnoun

Something actual as opposed to invented.

Factnoun

Something which is real.

Factnoun

Something which has become real.

Factnoun

Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.

Factnoun

An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.

Factnoun

Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.

Factnoun

(databases) An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.

Factinterjection

Used before making a statement to introduce it as a trustworthy one.

Factnoun

A doing, making, or preparing.

Factnoun

An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.

Factnoun

Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.

Factnoun

The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts.

Factnoun

a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred;

Factnoun

a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened;

Factnoun

an event known to have happened or something known to have existed;

Factnoun

a concept whose truth can be proved;

Factnoun

a thing that is known or proved to be true

Factnoun

information used as evidence or as part of a report or news article

Factnoun

used to refer to a particular situation under discussion

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the truth about events as opposed to interpretation

Fact

A fact is an occurrence in the real world. The usual test for a statement of fact is verifiability—that is whether it can be demonstrated to correspond to experience.

Fictionnoun

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

Fictionnoun

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

Fictionnoun

(legal) A legal fiction.

Fictionnoun

The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.

Fictionnoun

That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; - opposed to fact, or reality.

Fictionnoun

Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.

Fictionnoun

An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.

Fictionnoun

Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.

Fictionnoun

a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

Fictionnoun

a deliberately false or improbable account

Fictionnoun

literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people.

Fictionnoun

something that is invented or untrue

Fictionnoun

a belief or statement which is false, but is often held to be true because it is expedient to do so

Fiction

Fiction is any creative work (chiefly, any narrative work) consisting of people, events, or places that are imaginary—in other words, not based strictly on history or fact. In its most narrow usage, fiction refers to written narratives in prose and often specifically novels, though also novellas and short stories.