confabulate
pronunciation
How to pronounce confabulate in British English:
UK [kən'fæbjʊleɪt]
How to pronounce confabulate in American English:
US [kən'fæbjəˌleɪt]
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- Verb:
- unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
- have a conference in order to talk something over
Word Origin
- confabulate (v.)
- 1610s, from confabulatus, past participle of Latin confabulari "to converse together," from com- "together" (see com-) + fabulari "to talk, chat," from fabula "a tale" (see fable). Psychiatric sense is from 1924.
Example
- 1. I 'd like to confabulate with my friends at weekends .
- 2. Emcp leaders confabulate with deputy mayor of jinan friendly .
- 3. If you are considering trying the atkins diet , you compulsion to confabulate the pros and cons .
- 4. They compared her performance on a range of psychological tests with that of two patients with frontal lobe brain damage who don 't confabulate , and with five healthy controls .
- 5. After the conference , I began as man-to-man as employee confabulate to work by the plan immediately again .