fabrication

(noun)

noun

1. a deliberately false or improbable account

Similar word(s): fable, fiction

Definition categories: communication, falsehood, falsity, untruth

2. writing in a fictional form

Similar word(s): fictionalization

Definition categories: act, authorship, composition, penning, writing

3. the act of making something (a product) from raw materials

- the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals

Similar word(s): manufacture, manufacturing

Definition categories: act

4. the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)

Similar word(s): assembly

Definition categories: act, building, construction

5. the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

Similar word(s): lying, prevarication

Definition categories: act, falsification, misrepresentation

Sentences with fabrication as a noun:

- the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government

- The story is doubtless a fabrication.