Associations to the word «Confabulation»

Wiktionary

CONFABULATION, noun. A casual conversation; a chat.
CONFABULATION, noun. (psychology) A fabricated memory believed to be true.

Dictionary definition

CONFABULATION, noun. An informal conversation.
CONFABULATION, noun. (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered.

Wise words

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams