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confabulation|kənfæbjʊˈleɪʃən|
Also 5–6 -acion.
[ad. L. confābulātiōn-em, n. of action from confābulāri: see prec. So in Fr.]
1. a. Talking together; a familiar talk or conversation; chat.
c1450tr. T. à Kempis 133 Þi consolacions are not as mannes talkinges or confabulacions. 1534More Godly Medit. Wks. 1417/1 To abstaine from vaine confabulacions. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. vi. i. (1651) 293 Friends confabulations are comfortable at all times. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. 21. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. xxxiii. 16 Sheldon espied us, out of a Window, holding a long Confabulation. 1801M. Edgeworth Mdlle. Panache (1832) 223 His lordship was engaged in confabulation with his groom. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xvi, When they went off for a private confabulation at night.
b. humorously. A conference.
1845Whitehall lvi, Said Cromwell, rising, an example which was followed by the whole confabulation.
2. Psychiatry. The action of the verb confabulate 2.
1924A. A. Brill tr. Bleuler's Textbk. Psychiatry ii. 106 Memory hallucinations which endow a phantasy with reality..must be taken in the strict sense as confabulations. Ibid. 107 The most vivid confabulations are seen in many alcoholic Korsakoff cases. 1942Lemkau & Kronenberg tr. Rorschach's Psychodiagnostics iv. 104 Features of confabulation become predominant and overcome the consciousness of the unreality of the product of imagination. 1961Brit. Med. Dict. 341/1 Confabulation, the recital of experiences that have no foundation in fact and the glib untruthful answering of questions usually in compensation for a gap in memory. |
