Other forms: fabrications
A fabrication is something invented to deceive, or the making of a thing. A complete fabrication, steel fabrication, the fabrication of evidence.
The two senses sit oddly together: in engineering, fabrication is honest manufacture, and in everyday speech a fabrication is a lie. Only context tells them apart, and the shared idea is that something has been made rather than found.
1nounfabricationSomething invented to deceive, or the making of a thing.
“The newspaper admitted that the interview was a complete fabrication.”
fabrication is a lie, or a making.
faBRICation → built BRICK by brick, none of it true
The whole story was built up brick by brick over a week, and not one single brick in it was true.
hooks ontobrick
Latin fabricatio comes from fabricare, to build, from faber, a craftsman. Fabric is a relative.
Latin
fabricatio
Middle French
fabrication
English, today
fabrication
From Middle French fabrication, from Latin fabricatio. Equivalent to fabricate + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA