fabrication

[ fab-ri-key-shuh n ]

/ ˌfæb rɪˈkeɪ ʃən /

the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.

something fabricated, especially an untruthful statement: His account of the robbery is a complete fabrication.

Origin of fabrication

First recorded in 1475–1500, fabrication is from the Latin word fabricātiōn- (stem of fabricātiō). See fabricate, -ion

2 See fiction.

He completely disrupts not only the conception of architecture—but also the fabrication, the mise en oeuvre of architecture.

Frank Gehry Is Architecture’s Mad Genius |Sarah Moroz |October 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
As someone who writes and publishes for a living, I take exception to people who go out and make money based on fabrication.

The Right’s War on Neil deGrasse Tyson |Tim Mak |September 19, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
“I regarded the whole thing as a fabrication, a hoax, a put up job,” he wrote in May 1983.

The British Punk Band That Fooled Reagan, Thatcher And The CIA |Nico Hines |January 4, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Yet the exponential decline in the cost means that the threat posed by the fabrication of lethal bio-pathogens is rising.

Big Idea: The Time for Divided Nations Is Over |Ian Goldin |August 1, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

In 1988, Mr. Scarff's tale was revealed to be a fabrication.

Church of Scientology Details Error in Lawrence Wright’s Book |Karen Pouw |January 23, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The fabrication of stone implements would of itself lead by degrees to a knowledge of the metals which are contained in stones.

The Evolution of Culture |Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
From this to the fabrication of a factitious human fossil was, it is suggested, but a short step.

The Geological Evidence of The Antiquity of Man |Charles Lyell
But the legend itself seems to be an importation, not a fabrication, as Mabillon suggested.

The Lives of the Saints, Volume II (of 16): February |Sabine Baring-Gould
Kalkbrenner also interpolated some of his own music, and, spite of it all, the fabrication pleased for a time.

Life Of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3) |Otto Jahn
That they did not, only becomes a reason for his disclosure of the facts, not for his fabrication of falsehoods.

Assassination of Lincoln: a History of the Great Conspiracy |Thomas Mealey Harris