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Confabulation
//kənˌfæbjʊˈleɪʃən// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 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 (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered wordnet
- 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 an informal conversation wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English confabulacion (“conversation”), from Latin confābulātiōnem, from cōnfābulārī + -tiōnem.
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