falsification vs fabrication

fabrication vs falsification

falsification and fabrication both are nouns.

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

As nouns, fabrication is a hyponym of falsification; that is, fabrication is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than falsification:

falsification: a willful perversion of facts
fabrication: the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

Other hyponyms of falsification include distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting, equivocation, tergiversation, lying, prevarication, deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation.

falsification (noun)	fabrication (noun)
the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting	the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
the act of determining that something is false	the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
a willful perversion of facts	writing in a fictional form
any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something	the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
	a deliberately false or improbable account

Difference between falsification and fabrication

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