Fiction vs Fictionalism - What's the difference?
fiction | fictionalism |
Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
(uncountable) Invention.
(philosophy) The doctrine that certain concepts are simply convenient fictions
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As nouns the difference between fiction and fictionalism
is that fiction is literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose while fictionalism is (philosophy) the doctrine that certain concepts are simply convenient fictions.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 .