affabulation

affabulation (countable and uncountable, plural affabulations)

1. (obsolete) The moral of a fable.
   • 1969, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A Void:

     A crucial fact is that, my work advancing, what I'll find rising in priority isn't its initial point of application but its ongoing articulation for, if you think of it, communication (I might almost say 'communion') is ubiquitous, a signal coursing from this individual to that, from so-and-so to such-and-such, a two-way traffic in an idiom of transitivity or narrativity, fiction or imagination, affabulation or approbation, saga or song.

Borrowed from Late Latin affābulātiō. By surface analysis, affabuler +‎ -tion.

• IPA^(key): /a.fa.by.la.sjɔ̃/

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affabulation f (plural affabulations)

1. the moral of a fable, tale, story, etc.
2. (derogatory) fantasy, invention

• → Italian: affabulazione
• → Romanian: afabulație

• “affabulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.