confabulate

From Latin confabulari (“to talk together”), from com- (“together”) + fabulari (“to chat”), from fabula (“fable, tale”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /kənˈfæb.jul.eɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

confabulate (third-person singular simple present confabulates, present participle confabulating, simple past and past participle confabulated)

1. (intransitive) To speak casually with; to chat.
2. (intransitive) To confer.
3. (transitive, intransitive, psychology) To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory.
   • 1991, George P. Prigatano Chairman, ‎Daniel L. Schacter, Awareness of Deficit after Brain Injury: Clinical and Theoretical Issues ...

     "It has been well established that the speech areas in the absence of input often confabulate a response."

• confabulator
• confabulation
• confabulative
• confabulatory
• confab

confabulate

1. second-person plural present indicative of confabulare
2. second-person plural imperative of confabulare
3. feminine plural of confabulato

cōnfābulāte

1. vocative masculine singular of cōnfābulātus