different between confabulation vs confabulate

English

Etymology

From Middle English confabulacion (“conversation”), from Latin conf?bul?ti?nem, from c?nf?bul?r? + -ti?nem (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results). C?nf?bul?r? is the present active infinitive of c?nf?bulor (“to converse; to discuss”), from con- (prefix indicating a bringing together) + f?bulor (“to chat, converse, talk; to make up a story”) (from f?bula (“discourse, narrative; fable, story”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?- (“to say, speak”)) + for (“to say, speak, talk”)). The English word is analysable as confabulate +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?fæbj??le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: con?fab?u?lat?ion

Noun

confabulation (countable and uncountable, plural confabulations)

1. A casual conversation; a chat.

   Synonym: confab

2. (psychology) A fabricated memory believed to be true.

Derived terms

• confab (noun)

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English

Etymology

From Latin c?nf?bul?r? + English -ate (suffix forming verbs with the sense of acting in the specified manner). C?nf?bul?r? is the present active infinitive of c?nf?bulor (“to converse; to discuss”), from con- (prefix indicating a bringing together) + f?bulor (“to chat, converse, talk; to make up a story”) (from f?bula (“discourse, narrative; fable, story”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?- (“to say, speak”)) + for (“to say, speak, talk”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?fæbj?le?t/
• Hyphenation: con?fab?ul?ate

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To speak casually with; to chat.

   Synonym: confab

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."

Derived terms

• confab (verb)

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Italian

Verb

confabulate

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

Latin

Participle

c?nf?bul?te

1. vocative masculine singular of c?nf?bul?tus