confabulation
nounEtymology
From Middle English confabulacion (“conversation”), from Latin confābulātiōnem, from cōnfābulārī + -tiōnem.
- derived from confābulātiōnem
Definitions
A casual conversation
A casual conversation; a chat.
- […] Mrs Grantly was preparing herself for a grand attack which she was to make on her father, as agreed upon between herself and her husband during their curtain confabulation of that morning.
- The schoolroom piano broke into all gruesome fancies; and when that failed there were confabulations in corners, with a sequel of one of them going out in the highest spirits in order to “come in” as something new.
- The vision had roused a host of other associations, and he sat looking with new eyes at the library which, for over thirty years, had been the scene of his solitary musings and of all the family confabulations.
A fabricated memory believed to be true, especially in someone with dementia or with…
A fabricated memory believed to be true, especially in someone with dementia or with encephalopathy from advanced alcoholism.
- Segal said another characteristic of Trump’s questionable mental acuity is confabulation. “It’s where he takes an idea or something that’s happened and he adds to it things that have not happened.”
An assertion, statement, or text generated by a generative AI that is presented by that…
An assertion, statement, or text generated by a generative AI that is presented by that AI as if it were true but is in fact a made-up, false notion.
The neighborhood
- neighborconfabular
- neighborconfabulate
- neighborconfabulative
- neighborconfabulator
- neighborconfabulatory
- neighborconfabulist
- neighborfable
- neighborfabular
- neighborfabulism
- neighborfabulist
- neighborfabulistic
- neighborfabulousness
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for confabulation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA