confabulation
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- noun
- /kənˌfæb.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
- Specialized
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confabulación
- Weber's narrative mirror involves fabulation and fictionalization because it puts together story elements that in reality are shattered: "Personal confabulation, the neurologist Feinberg called it."
In fact, deontology itself is a kind of moral confabulation.
- In fact, deontology itself is a kind of moral confabulation.
Examples
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Until we are able to locate any organic foundation for the amnesia and confabulation, we will proceed with a psychological investigation underpinned by an understanding of the needs of the confabulator.
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In therapy, he revealed that some of his childhood memories were actually confabulations created to fill in gaps in his recollection.
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For some people, it is part of a natural confabulation that makes stories improve over time.
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To deconstruct the confabulation, let's take a look at a few papers which address this very issue:
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No way they'll let the jury see how absurd his confabulations are.
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Tara's story is simply an elaborate confabulation to obscure a horrible trauma.
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While many are probably confabulations, there is data highly suggestive of reincarnation proper.
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Tara's sessions with her psychiatrist are especially well done, with Tara's belief in her magical story battling against the doctor's belief in her confabulation.
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In the psychological model, the episodes were confabulations, the result of the confusion between memory and fantasy in some individuals, nurtured by widespread accounts in the media.
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His confabulations were as brash as they were petty: at one point, he claimed to have filed a police report for a missing wallet, overstating the amount of cash in it by a factor of ten while filling out the form, then having the recovered wallet returned to him containing the inflated amount.
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Synonyms
A memory problem where dreams or things you imagine seem like real events
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
confabulation = confabulate (semi-transparent) = confabulate + ation
The noun is formed from the verb 'confabulate' meaning to invent or tell stories, but the psychiatric sense involves a specialized nuance ('unconscious fabricated memory') that is not fully inferable by general learners.
Etymology
Confabulation comes from the Latin parts con- 'with' and fabulare 'to tell a story', and is related to the English word fable. In psychiatry it means a person, without meaning to, 'makes up' a believable memory to fill a gap in their real memory, like telling a story to cover an empty place.