confabulation

Noun

Meaning

Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

chat confab schmooze schmoose council gab word babble parley speech exchange meeting communication debate argument
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Antonyms

gospel still death fact axiom hearing
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Hypernyms

memory conversation

Hyponyms

gab gossip chitchat chit-chat tittle-tattle small talk

Related terms

confabulate confabulatory confabulator confabular confabulative

Examples

A figurative proverb test for dementia: rapid detection of disinhibition, excuse and confabulation, causing discommunication. Source: Internet

All those things like confabulation and biases and fallacies and motivated reasoning and all that stuff. Source: Internet

Neither the person hypnotized nor the expert observer can distinguish between confabulation and accurate recall in any particular instance. Source: Internet

This is not a mondegreen, but a result of a confabulation in Holden's psyche in line with the theme of the novel. Source: Internet

Sometimes false information or confabulation can occur. Source: Internet

We need to decide if we are practicing democracy, dictatorship or cilimicy or we are practicing, shacakism, a confabulation for sharing of the cake government. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

confabbing confabular confabulate confabulative confabulator confabulatory