Meaning & use
Fabulation
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The act of inventing fables or fictional, often fantastical, narratives; a style of storytelling that mixes fact with imaginative invention.
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Critics praised the novel's playful fabulation, which blurred the line between history and myth.
Fabulation allowed the author to reimagine real events as if they were folk tales.
A note on using this word
A term especially associated with postmodern literary criticism, describing fiction that self-consciously invents rather than merely reports.
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