Gossip vs. Story — What's the Difference?

Gossip is idle talk or rumour, especially about the personal or private affairs of others; the act is also known as dishing or tattling.Gossip is a topic of research in evolutionary psychology, which has found gossip to be an important means for people to monitor cooperative reputations and so maintain widespread indirect reciprocity. Indirect reciprocity is a social interaction in which one actor helps another and is then benefited by a third party.

An account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment

Rumor or talk of a personal, sensational, or intimate nature.

An account of past events in someone's life or in the development of something

A person who habitually spreads intimate or private rumors or facts.

The commercial prospects or circumstances of a particular company

Trivial, chatty talk or writing.

Variant spelling of storey

A close friend or companion.

An account or report regarding the facts of an event or group of events

Chiefly British A godparent.

An anecdote

To engage in or spread gossip

A lie

(countable) Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business.

A usually fictional prose or verse narrative intended to interest or amuse the hearer or reader; a tale.

(uncountable) Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.

A short story.

(uncountable) Idle conversation in general.

The plot of a narrative or dramatic work.

(uncountable) A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.

A news article or broadcast.

A sponsor; a godfather or godmother; the godparent of a child.

Something viewed as or providing material for a literary or journalistic treatment

(obsolete) A familiar acquaintance.

The background information regarding something

(obsolete) Title used with the name of one's child's godparent or of a friend.

Romantic legend or tradition

(intransitive) To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a manner that spreads the information.

A complete horizontal division of a building, constituting the area between two adjacent floors.

(intransitive) To talk idly.

The set of rooms on the same floor of a building.

(obsolete) To stand godfather to; to provide godparents for.

To decorate with scenes representing historical or legendary events.

(obsolete) To enjoy oneself during festivities, to make merry.

(Archaic) To tell as a story.

A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.

An account of real or fictional events.

A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance.

A lie, fiction.

One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler.

A soap opera.

The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor.

(obsolete) History.

To stand sponsor to.

A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.

To make merry.

A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period.

To prate; to chat; to talk much.

(computing) user story

To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.

To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.

Light informal conversation for social occasions

A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within.

A report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people;

A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.

A person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others

The relation of an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance.

Wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies;

A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story.

Talk socially without exchanging too much information;

To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.

A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program;

A piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events;

Structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building;

A record or narrative description of past events;

A short account of the news;

A trivial lie;