Hypertext Webster Gateway: "confabulation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Confabulation \Con*fab`u*la"tion\, n. [L. confabulatio.]
Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious
conversation.
Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times,
as fire in winter. --Burton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
confabulation
n 1: an informal conversation [syn: {chat}, {confab}, {schmooze},
{schmoose}]
2: (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in
gaps in what is remembered
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