Fiction vs Imaginary - What's the difference?
fiction | imaginary |
Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
(uncountable) Invention.
existing only in the imagination
* Addison
(mathematics) of a number, having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.
Imagination; fancy.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 324:
(mathematics) An imaginary quantity.
As nouns the difference between fiction and imaginary
is that fiction is literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose while imaginary is imagination; fancy.As an adjective imaginary is
existing only in the imagination.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
* * * ----imaginary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer / Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?
Derived terms
* imaginarily * imaginarinessNoun
(imaginaries)- By then too Mozart's opera, from Da Ponte's libretto, had made Figaro a stock character in the European imaginary and set the whole Continent whistling Mozartian airs and chuckling at Figaresque humour.