confabulation

English

Etymology

From Middle English confabulacion (“conversation”),[1] from Latin confābulātiōnem, from cōnfābulārī + -tiōnem.[2]

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /kənˌfæbjʊˈleɪʃən/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən
  • Hyphenation: con‧fab‧u‧lat‧ion

Noun

confabulation (countable and uncountable, plural confabulations)

  1. A casual conversation; a chat.
    Synonym: confab
  2. (psychology) A fabricated memory believed to be true.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “confabūlāciōn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ “confabulation, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1891; “confabulation, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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