Crossword clues for confabulation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "talking together," from Late Latin confabulationem (nominative confabulatio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin confabulari (see confabulate).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A casual conversation; a chat. 2 (context psychology English) A fabricated memory believed to be true.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A confabulation, also known as a false, degraded, or corrupted memory, is a stable pattern of activation in an artificial neural network or neural assembly that does not correspond to any previously learned patterns. The same term is also applied to the (nonartificial) neural mistake-making process leading to a false memory ( confabulation).
In psychiatry, confabulation (verb: confabulate) is a memory disturbance, defined as the production of fabricated, distorted or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive. Individuals who confabulate present incorrect memories ranging from "subtle alterations to bizarre fabrications", and are generally very confident about their recollections, despite contradictory evidence.
Usage examples of "confabulation".
But there are also such things as false memories and confabulations, and they are not rare at all.
In their native language they do not seem so fanciful, and here in the castle, confabulations take on substantiality.
It was rather a long confabulation, too, and one that both men seemed to take very seriously--though its upshot was apparently quite acceptable to both--and terminated abruptly with Mr.
Victor closeted with Sturm in his study daily for hours at a time, often in confabulation with others of like ilk, men of furtive and unprepossessing cast who came and went by appointment at all hours, but as a rule late at night!
Giles Hartley-Pulman, deep in confabulation with his chef and three young waitresses, jumped six inches in the air.
And might I say how your telephonic confabulation brightens up and cheers our otherwise dreary and uneventful day?
If such confabulation persists, we shall have no recourse but to consult management.
The confabulation was conducted throughout in the same foreign language which Levi had used when first speaking to them--a language quite unintelligible to Hiram's ears.
And if it was a confabulation, why would I confabulate the Titanic, of all things?
Out of all these contending propensities and child-rearing practices, some people emerge with an intact ability to fantasize, and a history, extending well into adulthood, of confabulation.