nonfiction

UK/nɒn'fɪkʃən/US/nɒn'fikʃәn/

TOEFLC2

Definitions

Prose writing about real people, facts, and events, as opposed to fiction.

非虚构类作品（与小说相对）。

Root Breakdown

Root-derived

non-not, reversal

fictmake, do

-ionact, process, state

=nonfiction

non- (not) + fiction. fiction (fict = fac, 'made up') is invented writing; nonfiction is the opposite — writing based on real, factual things. See fiction.

Root fac still carries 273 more words

Common Collocations

1.narrative nonfiction叙事非虚构
2.literary nonfiction文学非虚构
3.creative nonfiction创意非虚构

Example Sentences

1.
She prefers nonfiction, especially history and biography.
2.
The book won an award for narrative nonfiction.

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