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Definition of confabulate in English: confabulateverb kənˈfabjʊleɪtkənˈfæbjəˌleɪt [no object]1formal Engage in conversation; talk. 〈正式〉谈话；交谈 she could be heard on the telephone confabulating with someone 从电话里能听到她正和别人说话。 Example sentencesExamples - This was confabulated into Christian mythology, the converted Norse intertwining the character with one of the first saints of the region, Saint Nicholas.
- Since the story broke, six staffers, including two senior editors, have spent more than 6,000 man hours attending commission hearings, and confabulating with as many as 12 lawyers.
- Some people purchased them, and, when asked why, were quite ready to volunteer one confabulated answer or another.
- Broken cultures therapeutically confabulate, mythologise former ways of life, and fight off meaninglessness by shoring up crumbling identities.
- Chances are, you can get a large percentage of your family members confabulating with you on something that simply couldn't have happened, given that Bugs Bunny is a Warner Brothers character.
Synonyms talk, speak, chat, have a conversation, have a talk, have a discussion, discourse 2Psychiatry
Fabricate imaginary experiences as compensation for loss of memory. 〔精神病学〕虚构（指虚构不存在的经历以补偿记忆丧失） she has lapses in attention and concentration—she may be confabulating a little Example sentencesExamples - Does the person fumble, confabulate, get defensive and angry, etc.
- R. has come a long way but she still confabulates and struggles with short-term memory loss.
- People who confabulate experience their false memories as true.
- Why the brain stimulates and confabulates just the memories it does remains a mystery, though there are several plausible explanations.
- Neuropsychological evidence points towards our tendency to confabulate stories that we believe to be true in order to fit together disparate pieces of information.
Derivativesnoun kənˌfabjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)nkənˌfæbjəˈleɪʃ(ə)n To skeptical critics this is warning sign: the memories are confabulations suggested by prodding, suggestive therapy. Example sentencesExamples - A responsible therapist has a duty to help a patient sort out delusion from reality, dreams and confabulations from truth, and real abuse from imagined abuse.
- After long confabulations, the tribal elders told him that only the old people would act in his movie.
- He claims it was after confabulation with the Pope.
- The story that she couldn't remember appears to be a complete Pentagon confabulation in order to cover up the phoniness of the whole operation.
adjective kənˈfabjʊlət(ə)rikənˈfæbjələˌtɔri So to enter the example of Korsakoff's psychosis, this is also known as confabulatory amnesia, which has essentially two features: the one is that the patient is unable to lay down any new memories. Example sentencesExamples - He confided to me in a loud confabulatory whisper.
- Jones's skillfully woven novel is filled with colorful characters which somehow also achieve three-dimensionality; its stories are sometimes what Harlan calls ‘confabulatory’ but still manage both credibility and poignancy.
- Nor were they confabulatory like this patient with viral encephalitis, whose short term memory lasted several minutes.
- Individual differences in hypnotic ability were associated with erroneous and confabulatory recall in the hypnosis and CI conditions but not in the MRR condition.
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin confabulat- 'chatted together', from the verb confabulari, from con- 'together' + fabulari (from fabula 'fable'). Definition of confabulate in US English: confabulateverbkənˈfabyəˌlātkənˈfæbjəˌleɪt [no object]1formal Engage in conversation; talk. 〈正式〉谈话；交谈 she could be heard on the telephone confabulating with someone 从电话里能听到她正和别人说话。 Example sentencesExamples - Since the story broke, six staffers, including two senior editors, have spent more than 6,000 man hours attending commission hearings, and confabulating with as many as 12 lawyers.
- Broken cultures therapeutically confabulate, mythologise former ways of life, and fight off meaninglessness by shoring up crumbling identities.
- This was confabulated into Christian mythology, the converted Norse intertwining the character with one of the first saints of the region, Saint Nicholas.
- Some people purchased them, and, when asked why, were quite ready to volunteer one confabulated answer or another.
- Chances are, you can get a large percentage of your family members confabulating with you on something that simply couldn't have happened, given that Bugs Bunny is a Warner Brothers character.
Synonyms talk, speak, chat, have a conversation, have a talk, have a discussion, discourse 2Psychiatry
Fabricate imaginary experiences as compensation for loss of memory. 〔精神病学〕虚构（指虚构不存在的经历以补偿记忆丧失） Example sentencesExamples - People who confabulate experience their false memories as true.
- Neuropsychological evidence points towards our tendency to confabulate stories that we believe to be true in order to fit together disparate pieces of information.
- Why the brain stimulates and confabulates just the memories it does remains a mystery, though there are several plausible explanations.
- R. has come a long way but she still confabulates and struggles with short-term memory loss.
- Does the person fumble, confabulate, get defensive and angry, etc.
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin confabulat- ‘chatted together’, from the verb confabulari, from con- ‘together’ + fabulari (from fabula ‘fable’). |