Reality vs. Fiction
By Muazma Batool — Updated on September 28, 2022
Difference Between Reality and Fiction
Muazma Batool◉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.).
◉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.
◉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
◉Fiction
The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.
◉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.
◉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
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
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