confabulate
[ kuhn-fab-yuh-leyt ]
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verb (used without object),con·fab·u·lat·ed, con·fab·u·lat·ing.
to converse informally; chat.
Psychiatry. to replace a gap in one's memory by a falsification that one believes to be true; engage in confabulation.
Origin of confabulate
1Other words from confabulate
- con·fab·u·la·tor, noun
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British Dictionary definitions for confabulate
confabulate
/ (kənˈfæbjʊˌleɪt) /
verb(intr)
to talk together; converse; chat
psychiatry to replace the gaps left by a disorder of the memory with imaginary remembered experiences consistently believed to be true: See also paramnesia
Origin of confabulate
1C17: from Latin confābulārī, from fābulārī to talk, from fābula a story; see fable
Derived forms of confabulate
- confabulation, noun
- confabulator, noun
- confabulatory, adjective
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