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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

/ əˈæʊˌɪ /

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • Dzˈڲܱٴǰ, adjective
  • DzˌڲˈپDz, noun
  • Dzˈڲˌٴǰ, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • Dz·ڲu·tǰ noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of confabulate1

First recorded in 1600–10; from Latin DzԴܱٳܲ (past participle of DzԴܱī “to talk together, discuss”); con- ( def ), fable ( def ), -ate 1( def )
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of confabulate1

C17: from Latin DzԴܱī, from ܱī to talk, from ܱ a story; see fable
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“If he is confabulating, he is wholly confident in his recollection and will stick to his guns. You can’t present anyone confabulating with evidence to the contrary because they believe their own reality.”

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“We know people confabulate details in many situations, but it was neat to see this play out in the context of imagination,” 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’m 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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