Definitions for: Fabrication


[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



Webster (1913) 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.

Synonyms: assembly, fable, fiction, fictionalisation, fictionalization, lying, manufacture, prevarication

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

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