Synonyms for fabrication
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
3. Manufacture
Other
assembly, tissue, coinage, fictionalization, fictionalisation UK
Definitions
- n. 1
The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture
the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government
- n. 2
That which is fabricated; a falsehood.
The story is doubtless a fabrication.
- n. 3
The act of cutting up an animal carcass as preparation for cooking; butchery.
Related words
- Word family
- fabricate fabricated fabric
Forms
- Plural
- fabrications → falsehoods, lies, untruths, prevarications…
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Fiction is opposed to what is real; fabrication to what is true. Fiction is designed commonly to amuse, and sometimes to instruct; a fabrication is always intended to mislead and deceive.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Example sentences
- falsehood It is difficult to distinguish truth from falsehood.
- forgery The experts decided the document was a forgery.
- manufacture The plants manufacture complex chemical compounds.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| fabrication | falling | |
| falsehood | steady | |
| falsity | steady | |
| untruth | steady | |
| prevarication | rising | |
| forgery | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- lie1, fib1
- 4 letters
- myth1
- 5 letters
- story2, lying2, fable2
- 6 letters
- making2, tissue2
- 7 letters
- fiction2, forgery3, coinage2, figment2, falsity3, untruth2
- 8 letters
- assembly3, pretense2, pretence
- 9 letters
- invention3, falsehood2, falseness
- 11 letters
- manufacture4
- 12 letters
- construction3
- 13 letters
- manufacturing5, prevarication5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (story2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- fabulation
- Deutsch
- Erfindungsgabe