fabrication meaning and definition

FABRICATION noun

Definition of fabrication (noun)

1. a deliberately false or improbable account
   • synonyms: fable, fiction
2. writing in a fictional form
   • synonyms: fictionalisation, fictionalization
3. the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
   • "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an improvement in the manufacture of explosives"; "manufacturing is vital to Great Britain"
   • synonyms: manufacture, manufacturing
4. the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
   • synonyms: assembly
   • antonym: disassembly
5. the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
   • synonyms: lying, prevarication