Novel vs. Fiction

A fictional prose narrative of considerable length, typically having a plot that is unfolded by the actions, speech, and thoughts of the characters.

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

The literary genre represented by novels.

Works in this category

Strikingly new, unusual, or different.

A work within this category

Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new.

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

Original, especially in an interesting way; new and striking; not of the typical or ordinary type.

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

A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.

(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.

(historical) A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work.

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

(obsolete) A novelty; something new.

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

A new legal constitution in ancient Rome.

(legal) A legal fiction.

Of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; new; hence, out of the ordinary course; unusual; strange; surprising.

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

That which is new or unusual; a novelty.

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.

News; fresh tidings.

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

A fictitious tale or narrative, longer than a short story, having some degree of complexity and development of characters; it is usually organized as a time sequence of events, and is commonly intended to exhibit the operation of the passions, and often of love.

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

A extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story

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

A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction;

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

Of a kind not seen before;

A deliberately false or improbable account

Pleasantly novel or different;