Confabulation

//kənˌfæbjʊˈleɪʃən// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A casual conversation; a chat. countable, uncountable

    "[…] Mrs Grantly was preparing herself for a grand attack which she was to make on her father, as agreed upon between herself and her husband during their curtain confabulation of that morning."

  2. 2
    (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered wordnet
  3. 3
    A fabricated memory believed to be true, especially in someone suffering from dementia. countable, uncountable

    "For Örulv and Hydén, confabulation is ‘world-making’ (669). What the person with AD chooses to enunciate, ‘may capture something important in the way the person makes sense of his or her life and also make meaning-based connections’ (Hydén and Örulv 2009: 206)."

  4. 4
    an informal conversation wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English confabulacion (“conversation”), from Latin confābulātiōnem, from cōnfābulārī + -tiōnem.

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