Fiction vs. Nonfiction

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.

Nonfictionnoun

Written works intended to give facts, or true accounts of real things and events. Often used attributively.

Nonfictionnoun

prose writing that is not fictional