the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun] > an invention, fiction, story > inventor of (3)
A maker or framer (of something material or immaterial); an author or creator. Now only in bad sense, a fabricator, inventor (of false stories, etc.).
One who or that which feigns, in various senses of the verb; †a fashioner, constructor, inventor; the contriver of a fiction (obsolete); a simulator…
One who devises or contrives; a contriver, designer; now, usually, One who devises something fictitious or false, a fabricator. †Formerly, also, a…