fabrication vs fable

fabrication and fable both are nouns.

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

As nouns, fabrication and fable are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of fabrication include fiction.

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