Fiction vs Concoction - What's the difference?
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Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
(uncountable) Invention.
(obsolete) Digestion (of food etc.).
*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.260:
The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.
A mixture prepared in such a way.
Something made-up, an invention.
(obsolete, figurative) The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.
(obsolete, medicine) Abatement of a morbid process, such as fever, and return to a normal condition.
(obsolete) The act of perfecting or maturing.
Fiction is a related term of concoction.
As nouns the difference between fiction and concoction
is that fiction is literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose while concoction is (obsolete) digestion (of food etc).fiction
English
(wikipedia fiction)Noun
(en noun)- The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions .
- I am a great reader of fiction .
- The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction .
Synonyms
* fabrication * figmentAntonyms
* documentary * fact * non-fictionDerived terms
* non-fiction * science fiction * speculative fiction * fiction sectionExternal links
* * * ----concoction
English
Noun
(en noun)- [Sorrow] hinders concoction , refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep; thickens the blood […].
- (John Donne)
- (Francis Bacon)