different between confabulation vs taxonomy

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

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

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