Fiction vs Prevarication - 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.
Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
* Cowper
* 2012 , The Economist, Oct 6th 2012,
A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
(legal, historical, Ancient Rome) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
(legal) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
Fiction is a related term of prevarication.
As nouns the difference between fiction and prevarication
is that fiction is literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose while prevarication is maladministration.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
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English
Noun
(en noun)- Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
- The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail.
Charlemagne: Mysterious Mariano
- Mr Rajoy frustrates many with his prevarication over a fresh euro-zone bail-out, which now comes with a conditional promise from the European Central Bank (ECB) to help bring down Spain’s stifling borrowing costs.
- (Cowell)