fabrication

Plural: fabrications

Noun

• a deliberately false or improbable account
• writing in a fictional form
• the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
  • "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"
• the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
• the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
• The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture
• That which is fabricated; a falsehood.
• The act of cutting up an animal carcass as preparation for cooking; butchery.

Examples

• the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government
• The story is doubtless a fabrication.

Synonyms

assembly, fable, fiction, fictionalisation, fictionalization, lying, manufacture, manufacturing, prevarication

Antonyms

disassembly

Related Words

fabric, fabricate, fabricated, fabricating