However some definitions suggest that the term attic refers to the entire storey of a building under the roof whereas the term loft refers to one or more rooms or spaces under the roof but not the entire storey.
Attic and loft.
The terms loft and attic are often used interchangeably to describe a large void under or partly under a roof but above the main occupied spaces that it is possible to access.
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The main difference between attic and loft is that the attic is a space found directly below the pitched roof of a house or other building and loft is a near roof part of a building.
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In this sense it is roughly synonymous with attic the major difference being that an attic typically constitutes an entire floor of the building while a loft covers only a few rooms leaving one or more sides open to the lower floor.
Loft is also used to refer to living spaces under the roof that were inhabited by poor artists in decadent buildings during ww ii.