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fabrication

noun

Synonyms and 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 of fabrication

fable, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, prevarication, story, tale, untruth, whopper
Words Related to fabrication

distortion, exaggeration, half-truth

ambiguity, equivocation

defamation, libel, slander

perjury

bluff, fiction, pose, pretense (or pretence)

canard, fallacy, misconception, myth

falsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement

deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence
Near Antonyms of fabrication

fact, truism, verity

honesty, truthfulness, veracity

authentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification
Antonyms of fabrication

truth
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.
Synonyms of fabrication

fable, fantasy (also phantasy), fiction, figment, invention
Words Related to fabrication

anecdote, narrative, novel, story, tale, yarn

fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, untruth, whopper

make-believe
Near Antonyms of fabrication

actuality, realness
Antonyms of fabrication

fact, materiality, reality

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