fable vs fabrication

fable and fabrication both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fable	Yes	No	No	No
fabrication	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, fable and fabrication are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of fable include fiction.

fable (noun)	fabrication (noun)
a short moral story (often with animal characters)	the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events	the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
a deliberately false or improbable account	writing in a fictional form
	the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
	a deliberately false or improbable account