confabulation [
kәn,fæbju'leiʃәn]
confabulation[ noun ]- an informal conversation
<noun.communication>
- (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
<noun.cognition>
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.