affabulation
English edit
Noun edit
affabulation (countable and uncountable, plural affabulations)
- (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.
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin affābulātiō. By surface analysis, affabuler + -tion.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
affabulation f (plural affabulations)
- the moral of a fable, tale, story, etc.
- (derogatory) fantasy, invention
Descendants edit
- → Italian: affabulazione
- → Romanian: afabulație
Further reading edit
- “affabulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.