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confabulation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun confabulation has 2 senses
- confabulation(n = noun.communication) chat, confab, schmoose, schmooze - an informal conversation; Array is a kind of conversation
- confabulation(n = noun.cognition) Array - (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered; Array is a kind of memory
has particulars: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle
Derived forms verb confabulate3, verb confabulate2
Derived form verb confabulate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
confabulation, n. [L. confabulatio.].
Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. [1913 Webster]
"Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter."
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ROGET THESAURUS
confabulation
Conversation
N conversation, interlocution, collocution, colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse, oral communication, commerce, dialogue, duologue, trialogue, causerie, chat, chitchat, small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk, tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle, babble, babblement, tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit, talk of the town, talk of the village, conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler, tete-a-tete, reception, conversazione, congress, powwow, hall of audience, durbar, palaver, debate, logomachy, war of words, gossip, tattler, Paul Pry, tabby, chatterer, interlocutor, conversationist, dialogist, the feast of reason and the flow of soul, mollia tempora fandi, conversing, interlocutory, conversational, conversable, discursive, discoursive, chatty, colloquial, with thee conversing I forget all time.
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