Novels vs Fiction - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between novels and fiction

is that novels is while fiction is literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.

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(wikipedia fiction)

(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 .

* fabrication * figment

* documentary * fact * non-fiction

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

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