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)
- A casual conversation; a chat.
- Synonym: confab
- (psychology) A fabricated memory believed to be true.
Derived terms
- confab (noun)
Related terms
- confable (obsolete, rare)
- confabular
- confabulate
- confabulative
- confabulator
- confabulatory
References
- “confabūlāciōn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “confabulation, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1891; “confabulation, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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