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Fable vs. Truth — What's the Difference?

Fable vs. Truth — What's the Difference?

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Fable

Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying. A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech or other powers of humankind.

Truth

Truth is the property of being in accord with fact or reality. In everyday language, truth is typically ascribed to things that aim to represent reality or otherwise correspond to it, such as beliefs, propositions, and declarative sentences.Truth is usually held to be the opposite of falsehood.

Fable

A usually short narrative making an edifying or cautionary point and often employing as characters animals that speak and act like humans.

Truth

Conformity to fact or actuality
Does this story have any truth?.

Fable

A story about legendary persons and exploits.
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Truth

Reality; actuality
In truth, he was not qualified for the job.

Fable

A falsehood; a lie.

Truth

The reality of a situation
The truth is, she respects your work.

Fable

To recount as if true.

Truth

A statement proven to be or accepted as true
Truths about nature.

Fable

To compose fables.

Truth

Such statements considered as a group
Researchers in pursuit of truth.

Fable

A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.

Truth

Sincerity; integrity
The truth of his intentions.

Fable

Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.

Truth

Fidelity to an original or standard
The truth of the copy.

Fable

Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

Truth

Theology & Philosophy That which is considered to be the ultimate ground of reality.

Fable

The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.

Truth

(Logic) The positive (true) truth-value.

Fable

To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.

Truth

True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.

Fable

To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.

Truth

Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice.

Fable

A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.
Jotham's fable of the trees is the oldest extant.

Truth

The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life.

Fable

The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
The moral is the first business of the poet; this being formed, he contrives such a design or fable as may be most suitable to the moral.

Truth

(archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity.

Fable

Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
We grewThe fable of the city where we dwelt.

Truth

(obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.

Fable

Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
It would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away a great fortune by secret methods.

Truth

Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.

Fable

To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell.
He fables, yet speaks truth.

Truth

That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
The truth is what is.
Alcoholism and redemption led me finally to truth.

Fable

To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
The hell thou fablest.

Truth

(countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
Hunger and jealousy are just eternal truths of human existence.

Fable

A deliberately false or improbable account

Truth

Topness; the property of a truth quark.

Fable

A short moral story (often with animal characters)

Truth

(games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth.
When asked truth or dare, he picked truth.

Fable

A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

Truth

To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.

Truth

To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.

Truth

To tell the truth.

Truth

The quality or being true; as: - (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.

Truth

Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.
Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork.

Truth

That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.
Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor.
I long to know the truth here of at large.
The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.

Truth

Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.
Alas! they had been friends in youth,But whispering tongues can poison truth.

Truth

A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals.
Even so our boasting . . . is found a truth.

Truth

The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity.
If this will not suffice, it must appearThat malice bears down truth.

Truth

Righteousness; true religion.
Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.
He that doeth truth cometh to the light.

Truth

To assert as true; to declare.
Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.

Truth

A fact that has been verified;
At last he knew the truth
The truth is the he didn't want to do it

Truth

Conformity to reality or actuality;
They debated the truth of the proposition
The situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat
He was famous for the truth of his portraits
He turned to religion in his search for eternal verities

Truth

A true statement;
He told the truth
He thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it

Truth

The quality of nearness to the truth or the true value;
He was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass
The lawyer questioned the truth of my account

Truth

United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)

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