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What is another word for fabulists?

Pronunciation: [fˈabjʊlˌɪsts] (IPA)

There are several synonyms for the word "fabulists" which refers to a person who writes or tells fables or fictional stories. Some of these synonyms include storyteller, writer, author, mythologist, and fantasist. A storyteller is someone who tells compelling and engaging stories, while a writer is someone who creates them on paper. An author is someone who makes a living through writing books, stories, or other texts, while a mythologist is an expert in the study of myths and legends. Finally, a fantasist is someone who creates fantastic or unrealistic stories or ideas. All of these words convey the idea of someone who has the ability to tell captivating and imaginative stories.
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I might, without being thought very romantic, have imagined myself in the city of petrified people, which Arabian fabulists are so fond of describing.
"Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents"
William Beckford
And from whence did the Arabian fabulists borrow it?
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)"
Isaac D'Israeli
In the latter the author has taken subjects, always amusing but not unfrequently loose, from the old fabulists, from Boccaccio, from the French prose tale-tellers of the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles and similar collections, from Rabelais, from a few Italian writers of the Renaissance, and has dressed them up in the incomparable narrative of which he alone has the secret.
"A Short History of French Literature"
George Saintsbury

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  • Who claims Truth, Truth abandons.She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech nimble enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or even the Curiosity, of Government.
    Thomas Pynchon

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