confabulist

Definitions

1. 1

   One who confabulates

   One who confabulates; a companion with whom one chats or confers.

   • I knew him only as a grey-bearded sage — he was my father's friend and close confabulist! " said Hueline, with a slight smile.
   • ... his heaven—the organ and confabulist of angels and spirits, their ideal brother.
2. 2

   One who invents elaborate stories, especially false ones misrepresented as if they were…

   One who invents elaborate stories, especially false ones misrepresented as if they were true.

   • The confabulist, who simply cannot resist making up stories, wastes an enormous amount of other people's time.
   • Oh — well, you see, that part's true. But not everything I say is true. Part of my illness. I'm a confabulist.
   • The confabulist loves the tools of her trade, the stream of words that is a river of stars flowing through the knowable universe, but words are only anthills and mountains, aspects from which the river is seen.
3. 3

   Involving the invention of elaborate stories.

   • Why did he always come up with the most romantic and confabulist notions?
   • Those days and nights, as I began to enter the shadowy timetable of The Darter's life, I found myself within a confabulist pattern that drew together barge smugglers, verterinarians, forgers, and dog tracks in the Home Countries.

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