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confabulation

[ kuhn-fab-yuh-ley-shuhn ]

noun

  1. One night, over a beer, Jake and I got into a confabulation on the world and life in general, and Jake's affairs in particular.

  2. Psychiatry, Psychology. the replacement of a gap in a person's memory by a falsification that they believe to be true:

    The report concluded that while the information elicited under hypnosis may be accurate, it may also include confabulations and pseudomemories.



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Other Words From

  • con·fab·u·la·to·ry [k, uh, n-, fab, -y, oo, -l, uh, -tawr-ee], adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of confabulation1

First recorded in 1490–1500; from Late Latin confabulātiōn- (stem of confābulātiō ) “conversation,” equivalent to confābulāt(us) ( confabulate ) + -iōn- noun suffix; -ion
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Example Sentences

This is most apparent in his discussion of the many forms of confabulation.

The constant disinformation, distraction, misdirection, confabulation, and endless stream of threats actually works.

The two girls put their heads together, and had a long confabulation.

One week certain mysterious persons would drop in, and sit in long confabulation.

He had eyed the three chiefs during their confabulation, and saw that the sailors were proceeding to pull his vessel to pieces.

Here, by an odd chance, just as we came to the school gate, we met Mr Jarman and Crofter walking out in deep confabulation.

Then Jake visited her, and, taking her out of the kitchen, had a long confabulation with her in the open.

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