fact vs feature

fact

noun
  • Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation. 

  • An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse. 

  • An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts. 

  • Something which is real. 

  • A wrongful or criminal deed. 

  • Something actual as opposed to invented. 

  • Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances. 

intj
  • Used before making a statement to introduce it as a trustworthy one. 

feature

noun
  • Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site. 

  • An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model. 

  • A beneficial capability of a piece of software. 

  • Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.). 

  • The act of being featured in a piece of music. 

  • Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet. 

  • A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news. 

  • An important or main item. 

  • The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down. 

  • The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic. 

verb
  • To appear, to make an appearance. 

  • To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context. 

  • To star, to contain. 

How often have the words fact and feature occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )