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Reality vs. Fiction

By Muazma Batool — Updated on September 28, 2022

Difference Between Reality and Fiction

Reality

The quality or state of being actual or true.

Fiction

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

Reality

One, such as a person, an entity, or an event, that is actual
"the weight of history and political realities" (Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.).

Fiction

Works in this category
the fiction of Virginia Woolf.

Reality

The totality of all things possessing actuality, existence, or essence.

Fiction

A work within this category
the shorter fictions of Faulkner.

Reality

That which exists objectively and in fact
Your observations do not seem to be about reality.

Fiction

Narrative, explanatory material, or belief that is not true or has been imagined or fabricated
The notion that he was at the scene of the crime is pure fiction.

Reality

Relating to or being a genre of television or film in which a storyline is created by editing footage of people interacting or competing with one another in unscripted, unrehearsed situations.

Fiction

A narrative, explanation, or belief that may seem true but is false or fabricated
"Neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world" (Howard Zinn).

Reality

The state of being actual or real; realness.
The reality of the crash scene on TV dawned upon him only when he saw the victim was no actor but his friend.

Fiction

(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.

Reality

The real world.

Fiction

(literature) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
I am a great reader of fiction.
the fiction section of the library

Reality

A real entity, event, or other fact.
The ultimate reality of life is that it ends in death.

Fiction

A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.
separate the fact from the fiction

Reality

The entirety of all that is real.

Fiction

(legal) A legal fiction.

Reality

An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.

Fiction

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

Reality

(obsolete) loyalty; devotion.

Fiction

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.
The fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon.
When it could no longer be denied that her flight had been voluntary, numerous fictions were invented to account for it.

Reality

; real estate.

Fiction

Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.
The office of fiction as a vehicle of instruction and moral elevation has been recognized by most if not all great educators.

Reality

The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.
A man fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.

Fiction

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

Reality

That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea.
And to realities yield all her shows.
My neck may be an idea to you, but it is a reality to me.

Fiction

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

Reality

Loyalty; devotion.
To express our reality to the emperor.

Fiction

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

Reality

See 2d Realty, 2.

Fiction

a deliberately false or improbable account

Reality

all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you;
his world was shattered
we live in different worlds
for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were

Reality

the state of being actual or real;
the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him

Reality

the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be;
businessmen have to face harsh realities

Reality

the quality possessed by something that is real

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