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Synonyms & Antonyms of fabrication
1
a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive
- her claim that she had been a nurse during the war proved to be a total fabrication
Synonyms for fabrication
- fable,
- fairy tale,
- falsehood,
- falsity,
- fib,
- lie,
- mendacity,
- prevarication,
- story,
- tale,
- taradiddle
- (or tarradiddle),
- untruth,
- whopper
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2
something that is the product of the imagination
- the notion that the Colossus of Rhodes could straddle the harbor was a fabrication of medieval writers
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