nonfiction

• non-fiction

From non- +‎ fiction.

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], archived from the original on 28 October 2021:

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

• creative nonfiction
• nonfiction novel

• nonfictional