Lore vs Fiction - What's the difference?
lore | fiction |
all the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.
* Milton
The backstory created around a fictional universe.
(obsolete) workmanship
(anatomy) The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
(anatomy) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.
(obsolete) (lose)
* Spenser
Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
(uncountable) Invention.
As nouns the difference between lore and fiction
is that lore is all the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience while fiction is literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.As a verb lore
is past tense of lose.lore
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lore, from (etyl) '', German ''Lehre . See also (l).Noun
- the lore of the Ancient Egyptians
- His fair offspring, nursed in princely lore .
- (Spenser)
Derived terms
* birdlore * booklore * catlore * doglore * faxlore * fishlore * folklore * photocopylore * woodlore * wortlore * xeroxloreEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* loredEtymology 3
Verb
(head)- Neither of them she found where she them lore .
Anagrams
* ----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 .