[…] 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.
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Confabulation
//kənˌfæbjʊˈleɪʃən//
Synonyms for "confabulation" (51 found)
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Bulgarian
4 entries- бъбрене noun (a casual conversation — see also chat)
- конфабулация noun (fabricated memory)
- лафене noun (a casual conversation — see also chat)
- лафуване noun (a casual conversation — see also chat)
German
1 entries- Konfabulation noun (fabricated memory)
Sample sentences
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The schoolroom piano broke into all gruesome fancies; and when that failed there were confabulations in corners, with a sequel of one of them going out in the highest spirits in order to “come in” as something new.
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The vision had roused a host of other associations, and he sat looking with new eyes at the library which, for over thirty years, had been the scene of his solitary musings and of all the family confabulations.
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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).
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