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Nonfictional vs Fiction - What's the difference?

nonfictional | fiction |

As an adjective nonfictional

is not fictional; being a true account.

As a noun fiction is

literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.

nonfictional

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Not fictional; being a true account.
  • fiction

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
  • The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions .
    I am a great reader of fiction .
  • (uncountable) Invention.
  • The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction .

    Synonyms

    * fabrication * figment

    Antonyms

    * documentary * fact * non-fiction

    Derived terms

    * non-fiction * science fiction * speculative fiction * fiction section