confabulation
- noun
- /kənˌfæb.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
- Informal
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charla
- During the coffee break, the team had a casual confabulation about their weekend plans.
Examples
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..who started this confabulation?
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After dinner, we enjoyed a lively confabulation about our favorite books.
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The two friends sat in the park, engaging in heartfelt confabulation about life.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A talk between two or more people to share news and ideas
∞
5.6
A short talk between people
947
1.0
A discussion where people share ideas or feelings
312
1.0
A friendly, informal talk between people
87
3.5
Continuous talk about small things, often lively and noisy
12
7.1
A short friendly talk between people
9
2.8
Short friendly talk about unimportant things
5
8.9
A short informal private talk between people
4
9.1
A short informal talk between people
1
2.3
A short informal talk to share or clear up something
1
9.5
Light talk between people with little meaning
A friendly, informal talk about personal news
A conversation between two or more people
How Casual
∞
1.4
∞
1.0
- Informal
- Informal
312
1.0
- Informal
65
2.1
- Informal
9
2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
confabulation = confabulate (opaque) = con + fab + ulate + ion
The noun is a routine nominalization of confabulate, but that verb and its deeper Latin stem are not transparently interpretable for most B1 learners.
Etymology
Confabulation comes from the Latin parts con- 'with' and fabulare 'to tell a story', just like the English word fable. So a confabulation can also mean a friendly chat or private conversation because it originally meant people 'telling stories' together.