— confabulatory /keuhn fab"yoo leuh tawr'ee, -tohr'ee/ , adj.
/keuhn fab'yeuh lay"sheuhn/ , n.
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.
[ 1490-1500; confabulation- (s. of confabulatio ) conversation, equiv. to confabulat ( us ) (see CONFABULATE) + -ion- -ION ]