misrepresentation vs fabrication

fabrication vs misrepresentation

misrepresentation and fabrication both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

misrepresentation (noun)	fabrication (noun)
a willful perversion of facts	the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
a misleading falsehood	the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
	writing in a fictional form
	the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
	a deliberately false or improbable account

Difference between misrepresentation and fabrication

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