Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A talking together; chatting; familiar talk; easy, unrestrained conversation: as, the two had a long confabulation.
Wiktionary
- n. A casual conversation; a chat.
- n. psychology A fabricated memory believed to be true.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
- n. an informal conversation
Etymologies
- Latin confabulari "to talk together", com- "together" + fabulari "to chat" from fabula "fable, tale" (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Assuming he got away with murder the first time, which I think 95 percent of Americans do believe, he developed what I call a confabulation between denial and delusion.”
“The basic idea called confabulation is that what humans (and mammals in general) are computing is not the most likely answer to a set of facts (baysian) but instead what would make the existing facts they have most likely to be true.”
Framing Effects and Memory, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Furthermore, brain scientists have noted the pervasive nature of self-deception and of different species of "confabulation", and they have begun to make progress in unmasking the underlying neurological processes (Hirstein 2005).”
“This ties into the idea of confabulation as the frontal lobes’ post-facto rationalization of decisions already made by the mammalian or reptilian brains.”
“The idea of "confabulation" is central to "The Museum of Lost Wonder," as you might expect.”
“Tell all you friends and neighbors along with family member about my quest and ask them go mark their vote for "confabulation" thank you one and all …”
“Psychologists call this tendency to fill in nonexistent details confabulation.”
“How many times and how strongly was Bush challenged on his ridiculous Iraq-9/ll confabulation?”
Think Progress » Fox News commentator Geraldo Rivera criticizes Bret Baier’s Obama interview.
“The traits of narcissistic personality disorder are: invalidation projection (especially of shame) pathological lying denial gaslighting slander stinginess self-contridictory verbally abusive entitled arrogant exploitative egocentric manipulation of the truth manipulation of others expressing disdaine for those you feel are inferior lack of empathy exaggerating your achievements and talents confabulation of truth”
Think Progress » Van Jones to Glenn Beck: ‘I see you, and I love you, brother.’ (Updated)
“A friend tried to explain the reason, but that disappeared in that ridiculous blue confabulation of his before he told me where he gets his grooming products from.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘confabulation’.
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you know that thing where the Eskimos have 50 words for snow?
little white lie, big lie, the Big Lie, economical with t..., muddy the waters, fabrication, deception, lies, damned lies..., façade, slander, omission, web of lies and 159 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Words I Used to Know
Words that make you go "I know that word...what the heck does it mean?!?
pulchritude, sanguine, trenchant, picaresque, gloaming, perfidious, confabulation, epiphany, importune, fulminate, efficacious, maladroit and 111 more...
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These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
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Untruisms
confabulation, factitious disorder, Münchhausen by proxy, Münchausen syndrome, pseudologia fanta..., pseudology, fabrication, equivocation, dysmorphophobia, chicane, counterfactual, pseudograph and 13 more...
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obfuscation, delineation, ratiocination, proprioception, gesticulation, oscillation, undulation, fasciculation, confabulation, interdiction, juxtaposition, commiseration and 41 more...
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Moby Dick
Words of interest from the book Moby Dick.
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Interests
random acts of ki..., mechanism(s), soul mates, hollandaise recipes, aesthetics, confabulation, reading, writers., reading about wri..., buried treasure, ulterior motives, mulligans and 10 more...
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Verecund, flivver, etc
Just some words I happen to enjoy. Some thread-worn, some not.
yegg, yob, verecund, amatory, fermata, threepenny, gruntled, flivver, gamboge, decolletage, ordure, nudnik and 173 more...
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delightful descriptors
petrichor, omphaloskepsis, ouroboros, oneiric, flaneur, saunter, dishabituation, fractalization, eudemony, phosphorescence, holographic, umwelt and 136 more...
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MiaLuthien's list ♥
gambit, prehensile, coquetry, impunity, genuflect, ensconce, clavicle, delude, beget, castigate, life caching, convoluted and 478 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Mnemosyne
Elicityscapes. Re-re-running; get, put.
"'Member dat?"
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for confabulation.
dhuber Seen here: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/10/09/newsweek-panders-to-the-deluded-again/
(A few paragraphs in...) Oct 15, 2012