CONFABULATION


Meaning of CONFABULATION in English

kənˌfabyəˈlāshən, ˌkän- noun

( -s )

Etymology: Middle English confabulacion, from Late Latin confabulation-, confabulatio, from Latin confabulatus + -ion-, -io -ion

1.

a. : familiar talk : conversation

drew closer in whispered confabulation — Elinor Wylie

also : chat

the staple of feminine confabulations — George Santayana

b. : conference , discussion

plans and intrigues and whispered confabulations — Max Lerner

2. : a filling in of gaps in memory by free fabrication (as in Korsakoff's syndrome)

• con·fab·u·la·to·ry kənˈfabyələˌtōrē adjective

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.