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Fabulator vs Fabulate - What's the difference?

fabulator | fabulate | Derived terms |

Fabulator is a derived term of fabulate.


As nouns the difference between fabulator and fabulate

is that fabulator is (dated) one who writes, studies or recites fables frequently; often professionally while fabulate is a folk story that is not entirely believable.

As a verb fabulate is

to tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables.

fabulator

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dated) One who writes, studies or recites fables frequently; often professionally
  • Synonyms

    * author * storyteller ----

    fabulate

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (fabulat)
  • To tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables.
  • * 1990 , Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Tractatus Brevus , Kluwer, page 38:
  • Human fears, needs, dreams release the latent propensities of the subliminal soul, and to respond to them the fabulating imagination sets to work.
  • * 1992 , Donald C. Goellnicht, "Tang Ao in America: Male Subject Positions in China Men'', Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Amy Ling (editors), ''Reading the Literatures of Asian America , Temple University Press, ISBN 978-0-87722-936-0, page 205:
  • The objects remain those of male fantasies, but from the start Maxine associates the ability to fantasize or fabulate with women and with Cantonese:
  • * 2006 , Jérémie Valentin, “Gille Deleuze’s Political Posture”, chapter 12 of Constantin V. Boundas (editor), Deleuze and Philosophy , Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-2480-5, page 196:
  • It is only this posture that permits him to discharge his function as a chief: to fabulate and to summon up the missing people.
    Derived terms
    * fabulation * fabulator

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A folk story that is not entirely believable.
  • (specifically) A folk story that is told for entertainment, and not intended to be taken as true.
  • See also
    * memorate ----