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confabulation

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13 lettersPronunciation /kənˌfæbjʊˈleɪʃən/Part of speech nounSorted aabcfilnnootuStarts with CEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • […] Mrs Grantly was preparing herself for a grand attack which she was to make on her father, as agreed upon between herself and her husband during their curtain confabulation of that morning.
  • The schoolroom piano broke into all gruesome fancies; and when that failed there were confabulations in corners, with a sequel of one of them going out in the highest spirits in order to “come in” as something new.
  • The vision had roused a host of other associations, and he sat looking with new eyes at the library which, for over thirty years, had been the scene of his solitary musings and of all the family confabulations.

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