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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



... were collecting ourselves preparatory to marching off, there were one or two things which struck me; one was that the Dutchman who had presented me with eggs and butter was in earnest confabulation with the Boer commandant, who was calling him "Oom" most affectionately. I also noticed that all the male Kaffirs from the neighboring kraal had been fetched and impressed to assist in getting the Boer guns and wagons across the drift and to load up our captured ...
— The Defence of Duffer's Drift • Ernest Dunlop Swinton


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


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