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Confabulation   /kənfˌæbjəlˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Confabulation

noun
1.
An informal conversation.  Synonyms: chat, confab, schmoose, schmooze.
2.
(psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered.





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"Confabulation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Excellency in hand?" asked the Reverend Mather Byles, whose Presbyterian scruples had not kept him from the entertainment. "Trust me, sir, I have already laughed more than beseems my cloth at your Homeric confabulation with yonder ragamuffin general of the rebels. One other such fit of merriment, and I must throw off my ...
— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne


Words linked to "Confabulation" :   gabfest, chit-chat, memory, chin-wag, gab, psychopathology, chin wagging, chitchat, confabulate, conversation, chin wag, chit chat, chin-wagging, chat, confab, tittle-tattle, causerie, psychiatry, psychological medicine, small talk, gossip


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