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What does confabulation mean?

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Noun
  1. A casual conversation; a chat.
  2. (psychology) A fabricated memory believed to be true.
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The difference, therefore, between normal and grossly amnesic confabulation may well be one of degree rather than kind.
During this confabulation, Maltravers and Evelyn were left alone with Sophy.
The individual's behaviour closely resembles that of Korsakoff's syndrome except that his insight into the memory disorder is usually good and confabulation is infrequent or absent.
Can attention deficit disorder appear with symptoms of confabulation?
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.
Sometimes there is a retention defect and confabulation to account for the recent past.

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