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confabulation

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con⋅fab⋅u⋅la⋅tion

  [kuhn-fab-yuh-ley-shuhn]
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–noun
1. the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
2. Psychiatry. the replacement of a gap in a person's memory by a falsification that he or she believes to be true.
Origin:
1490–1500; < LL confabulātiōn- (s. of confābulātiō) conversation, equiv. to confābulāt(us) (see confabulate ) + -iōn- -ion

Related forms:
con⋅fab⋅u⋅la⋅to⋅ry  [kuhn-fab-yoo-luh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] , adjective
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con·fab·u·late   (kən-fāb'yə-lāt')   
intr.v.   con·fab·u·lat·ed, con·fab·u·lat·ing, con·fab·u·lates

  1. To talk casually; chat.

  2. Psychology To fill in gaps in one's memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts.


[Latin cōnfābulārī, cōnfābulāt- : com-, com- + fābulārī, to talk (from fābula, conversation; see fable).]
con·fab'u·la'tion n., con·fab'u·la'tor n., con·fab'u·la·to'ry (-lə-tôr'ē, -tōr'ē) adj.
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Main Entry: con·fab·u·la·tion
Pronunciation: k&n-"fab-y&-'lA-sh&n, "kän-
Function: noun
: a filling in of gapsin memory by unconstrained fabrication (as in Korsakoff's psychosis) —con·fab·u·late /k&n-'fab-y&-"lAt/ intransitive verb -lat·ed; -lat·ing
—con·fab·u·la·to·ry /-y&-l&-"tOr-E, -"tor-/ adjective
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confabulation con·fab·u·la·tion (kən-fāb'yə-lā'shən)
n.
The unconscious filling of gaps in one's memory by fabrications that one accepts as facts.

con·fab'u·late' v.

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