Meaning of FABRICATION
| Pronunciation: | | `fabru'keyshun
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- [n] the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
- [n] the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
- [n] the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
- [n] writing in a fictional form
- [n] a deliberately false or improbable account
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| | Synonyms: | | assembly, fable, fiction, fictionalisation, fictionalization, lying, manufacture, prevarication |
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| | Antonyms: | | disassembly, dismantlement, dismantling | | |
| | See Also: | | authorship, building, canard, composition, construction, creating from raw materials, false statement, falsehood, falsification, falsity, fibbing, formation, misrepresentaation, paltering, penning, prefabrication, shaping, untruth, writing | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fab`ri*ca"tion\, n. [L. fabricatio; cf. F.
fabrication.]
1. The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing;
construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a
bridge, a church, or a government. --Burke.
2. That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is
doubtless a fabrication.
Syn: See {Fiction}.
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