different between confabulation vs hallucination

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)

Related terms

References

English

Etymology

Derives from the verb hallucinate, from Latin hallucinatus. Compare French hallucination. The first known usage in the English language is from Sir Thomas Browne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??lu?s??ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

hallucination (countable and uncountable, plural hallucinations)

1. A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion.
   • 1871, William Alexander Hammond, A Treatise on the Diseases of the Nervous System

     Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity.

2. The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder.

   • This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber.

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hall?cin?ti?; synchronically analysable as halluciner +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a.ly.si.na.sj??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: hallucinations

Noun

hallucination f (plural hallucinations)

1. hallucination

Related terms

• hallucinant
• hallucinatoire
• halluciné
• halluciner
• hallucinogène
• hallucinose

Further reading

• “hallucination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).