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Fabulation

[fab-yə-LEY-shən]

Part of speech: noun

Origin: Latin, 18th century

1.

The act or result of fabulating; a fabrication.

2.

(Literary criticism) A style of modern fiction, similar to magical realism and postmodernism.

Examples of Fabulation in a sentence

"My grandson came home from school full of wild tales of kindergarten adventures I suspected were fabulations."

"The fantasy movie presented an image of modern-day Athens that was pure fabulation."

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