What is the difference between novel and fiction?
novel | fiction |
(obsolete) A novelty; something new.
*, II.2.4:
A work of prose fiction, longer than a short story.
(classical studies, historical) A new legal constitution in ancient Rome.
Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
(uncountable) Invention.
As nouns the difference between novel and fiction
is that novel is a novelty; something new while fiction is literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.As an adjective novel
is new, original, especially in an interesting way.novel
English
(wikipedia novel)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Usage notes
* Said of ideas, ways, etc.Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
In various senses from (etyl) novelle or (etyl) novella, both from (etyl) novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, from . Some senses came to English directly from the Latin. (etystub)Noun
(en noun)- merry talessuch as the old woman told of Psyche in Apuleius, Boccace novels , and the rest, quarum auditione pueri delectantur, senes narratione , which some delight to hear, some to tell, all are well pleased with.
Derived terms
* novelisation, novelization * novelistfiction
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 .