nonfiction

See also: non-fiction

English

Alternative forms

• non-fiction

Etymology

From non- +‎ fiction.

Noun

nonfiction (countable and uncountable, plural nonfictions)

1. Written works intended to give facts, or true accounts of real things and events. Often used attributively.

   Encyclopedias, how-to manuals and biographies are all considered nonfiction and so are kept in the nonfiction section.

   • 2005 May 23, Eric Pfanner, “Puzzling phenomenon sweeps British papers”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     A sudoku book sits atop the Nielsen BookScan nonfiction best-seller list.

Derived terms

• creative nonfiction
• nonfiction novel

Related terms

• nonfictional

Translations

written works intended to give facts

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 非虛構文學 / 非虚构文学 (fēi-xūgòu wénxué)

• Czech: literatura faktu f
• Danish: faglitteratur
• Dutch: non-fictie
• Finnish: tietokirjallisuus
• French: non-fiction (fr) f
• Georgian: დოკუმენტური ლიტერატურა (doḳumenṭuri liṭeraṭura), სამეცნიერო ლიტერატურა (samecniero liṭeraṭura), არამხატვრული ლიტერატურა (aramxaṭvruli liṭeraṭura), აკადემიური ლიტერატურა (aḳademiuri liṭeraṭura)
• German: Sachliteratur (de) f
• Hungarian: ismeretterjesztő (hu)
• Italian: saggistico (it) m, saggistica (it) f
• Japanese: ノンフィクション (ja) (nonfikushon)
• Macedonian: стручна литерату́ра f (stručna literatúra), на́учно-документа́рна литерату́ра f pl (náučno-dokumentárna literatúra)
• Norwegian: faglitteratur
• Old English: sōþspell n
• Persian: غیرداستان (ğeyr-e-dâstân)
• Polish: literatura faktu (pl) f
• Russian: документа́льная литерату́ра f (dokumentálʹnaja literatúra)
• Spanish: no ficción f
• Swahili: sibunilizi
• Swedish: facklitteratur (sv) c
• Thai: สารคดี (th) (sǎa-rá-ká-dii)
• Vietnamese: phi hư cấu (vi), không hư cấu