fictitious place vs purgatory

purgatory vs fictitious place

fictitious place and purgatory both are nouns.

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

As nouns, purgatory is a hyponym of fictitious place; that is, purgatory 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
purgatory: (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins

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, limbo, limbo, Midgard, dreamland, dreamworld, never-never land, Ruritania, spirit world, Sion, Utopia, Zion, wonderland.

fictitious place (noun)	purgatory (noun)
a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings	(theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins
	a temporary condition of torment or suffering

Difference between fictitious place and purgatory

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