Fictivity vs. Fiction

Fictivity vs. Fiction — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Fictivity and Fiction

Fictivitynoun

The state or condition of being fictive.

Fictionnoun

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

The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.I am a great reader of fiction.

Fictionnoun

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

The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.

Fictionnoun

(legal) A legal fiction.

Fictionnoun

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

Fictionnoun

a deliberately false or improbable account

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