confabulation

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  1. A talking together; chatting; familiar talk; easy, unrestrained conversation: as, the two had a long confabulation. Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 330.

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  • THE first outcome of a long and close secret confabulation was the sudden increase of Percy's jewelled embellishments. —  AdventureTales#1
  • To do so involves invention and confabulation, beyond simply describing the known facts. —  Wired Top Stories
  • Grandma's stories of when she was a child were always amusing, especially when she added a hint of confabulation or exaggeration to them. —  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
  • Given the similarities in spelling and sound, you might guess that "confabulation" and "fabulous" come from the same root, and they do -- the Latin "fabula," which means "conversation" or "story." —  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
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  1. = French confabulation = Spanish confabulacion = Portuguese confabulação = Italian confabulazione, from Late Latin confabulatio(n-), from Latin confabulari, talk together: see confabulate.
 

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