fictitious place vs limbo

limbo vs fictitious place

fictitious place and limbo both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fictitious place	Yes	No	No	No
limbo	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, limbo is a hyponym of fictitious place; that is, limbo is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than fictitious place:

fictitious place: a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings
limbo: (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals)

Other hyponyms of fictitious place include afterworld, Annwfn, Annwn, Asgard, Atlantis, Brobdingnag, cloud-cuckoo-land, Cockaigne, El Dorado, eldorado, faerie, faery, fairyland, Heaven, Elysium, Hades, Hell, infernal region, netherworld, Scheol, underworld, Hell, infernal region, Inferno, nether region, perdition, pit, Houyhnhnms, Laputa, Lilliput, Midgard, dreamland, dreamworld, never-never land, purgatory, Ruritania, spirit world, Sion, Utopia, Zion, wonderland.

fictitious place (noun)	limbo (noun)
a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings	(theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals)
	an imaginary place for lost or neglected things
	the state of being disregarded or forgotten

Difference between fictitious place and limbo

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