Usually means: Creating stories, often imaginative or fictional.
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  1. fabling: Merriam-Webster
  2. fabling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fabling: Wordnik
  4. fabling: Wiktionary
  5. Fabling, fabling: Dictionary.com
  6. Fabling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. Fabling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. fabling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. fabling: FreeDictionary.org
  10. fabling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. fabling: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fabling)

▸ noun:  The act of telling fables.

Similar:
apologue, fiction, allegory, legend, parable, fabrication, fibbery, fableist, fibbing, fabulation, more...

Opposite:
defabulation, truth-telling, confession, acknowledgment

Adjectives:
fine, romantic, childish, impertinent, strange, mere, oriental, grand

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Similar:
apologue, fiction, allegory, legend, parable, fabrication, fibbery, fableist, fibbing, fabulation, more...

Opposite:
defabulation, truth-telling, confession, acknowledgment

Adjectives:
fine, romantic, childish, impertinent, strange, mere, oriental, grand



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