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confabulate

[ kuhn-fab-yuh-leyt ]

verb (used without object)

confabulated, confabulating.
  1. to converse informally; chat.
  2. Psychiatry. to replace a gap in one's memory by a falsification that one believes to be true; engage in confabulation.


confabulate

/ 办蓹苍藞蹿忙产箩蕣藢濒别瑟迟 /

verb

  1. to talk together; converse; chat
  2. psychiatry to replace the gaps left by a disorder of the memory with imaginary remembered experiences consistently believed to be true See also paramnesia
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 肠辞苍藞蹿补产耻濒补迟辞谤测, adjective
  • 肠辞苍藢蹿补产耻藞濒补迟颈辞苍, noun
  • 肠辞苍藞蹿补产耻藢濒补迟辞谤, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 肠辞苍路蹿补产顎僽路濒补顎卼辞谤 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of confabulate1

First recorded in 1600鈥10; from Latin 肠辞苍蹿腻产耻濒腻迟耻蝉 (past participle of 肠辞苍蹿腻产耻濒腻谤墨 鈥渢o talk together, discuss鈥); con- ( def ), fable ( def ), -ate 1( def )
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of confabulate1

C17: from Latin 肠辞苍蹿腻产耻濒腻谤墨, from 蹿腻产耻濒腻谤墨 to talk, from 蹿腻产耻濒补 a story; see fable
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Example Sentences

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鈥淚f he is confabulating, he is wholly confident in his recollection and will stick to his guns. You can鈥檛 present anyone confabulating with evidence to the contrary because they believe their own reality.鈥

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鈥淲e know people confabulate details in many situations, but it was neat to see this play out in the context of imagination,鈥 McCoy says.

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Shawn Oakley has shown that it is easy to induce ChatGPT to create misinformation and even report confabulated studies on a wide range of topics, from medicine to politics to religion.

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I鈥檓 a confabulating somnambulist, a bundle of reflexes, twitches and compulsions with no self-knowledge, let alone self-control.

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The personnel dressed in white jackets the next morning were busy confabulating and joking with one another while cheesy loud music was playing in the background.

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