Confabulation

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Confabulation \Con*fab`u*la"tion\, n. [L. confabulatio.]
     Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious
     conversation.
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           Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times,


           as fire in winter.                       --Burton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  confabulation
       n 1: an informal conversation [syn: {chat}, {confab}, {schmooze},
             {schmoose}]
       2: (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in
          gaps in what is remembered