What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Fictitious vs Fictionalism - What's the difference?

fictitious | fictionalism | Related terms |

Fictitious is a related term of fictionalism.


As an adjective fictitious

is not real; invented; contrived.

As a noun fictionalism is

(philosophy) the doctrine that certain concepts are simply convenient fictions.

fictitious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not real; invented; contrived.
  • St. Mary Mead is a fictitious village from the books of Agatha Christie.

    Synonyms

    * imaginary, invented, contrived, fictive

    fictionalism

    English

    Noun

  • (philosophy) The doctrine that certain concepts are simply convenient fictions
  • *{{quote-journal, 2007, date=July 17, Chris John Daly, Fictionalism and the attitudes, Philosophical Studies, url=, doi=10.1007/s11098-007-9132-x, volume=139, issue=3, pages=
  • , passage=But it seems to me that modal fictionalism is also incredible: normally we do not think that there are countless theories and stories besides the ones we will ever tell, much less that they are infinitely complex and infinitely long and so that it would be humanly impossible to tell them. }}