Fiction and Reality

Opposite meaning words

Fiction noun - Something that is the product of the imagination.

Usage example: most stories about famous outlaws of the Old West are fictions that have little or nothing to do with fact

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Reality is an antonym for fiction in made-up story topic.

Nearby Words: fictitious, fictional, fictionally

Reality noun - Something that actually exists.

Usage example: the ambition to make his dreams a reality

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Fiction is an antonym for reality.

Nearby Words: realize, real, realise, realistic, realization

old	old fiction	old reality
normal	normal fiction	normal reality
common	common fiction	common reality
future	future fiction	future reality
Other adjectives: original, true, actual, entire, real, hard, little, bad, trashy, dark, new, political, historical, dystopian, recursive.

After all, how many humans in reality or fiction ever refer to our little world as Sol III?

Source: Numbered Homeworld
Unfortunately, determining whether a schizophrenic who believes they were brainwashed by the CIA is reporting reality or fiction sort of proves the point.

Source: Government Conspiracy
In fiction and reality, other tanks may use anti-infantry or anti-aircraft weapons instead of cannons.Note These do exist in Real Life, but they're not called tanks.

Source: Tank Goodness

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