Fiction vs. Noval — What's the Difference?

Fiction is any creative work (chiefly, any narrative work) consisting of people, events, or places that are imaginary—in other words, not based strictly on history or fact. In its most narrow usage, fiction refers to written narratives in prose and often specifically novels, though also novellas and short stories.

Noval is a surname.

Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people.

Something that is invented or untrue

The category of literature, drama, film, or other creative work whose content is imagined and is not necessarily based on fact.

Works in this category

A work within this category

Narrative, explanatory material, or belief that is not true or has been imagined or fabricated

A narrative, explanation, or belief that may seem true but is false or fabricated

(Law) A verbal contrivance that is in some sense inaccurate but that accomplishes a purpose, as in the treatment of husband and wife as one person or a corporation as an entity.

(literature) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.

A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).

(legal) A legal fiction.

The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.

That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; - opposed to fact, or reality.

Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.

An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.

Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.

A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

A deliberately false or improbable account