intr.v., -lat·ed, -lat·ing, -lates.
- To talk casually; chat.
- Psychology. To fill in gaps in one's memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts.
[Latin cōnfābulārī, cōnfābulāt- : com-, com- + fābulārī, to talk (from fābula, conversation; see fable).]
confabulation con·fab'u·la'tion n.confabulator con·fab'u·la'tor n.
confabulatory con·fab'u·la·to'ry (-lə-tôr'ē, -tōr'ē) adj.
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