Confabulation

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A talking together; chatting; familiar talk; easy, unrestrained conversation: as, the two had a long confabulation.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A casual conversation; a chat.
  • noun. A fabricated memory believed to be true.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
  • noun. an informal conversation
  • Word Usage
    "Assuming he got away with murder the first time, which I think 95 percent of Americans do believe, he developed what I call a confabulation between denial and delusion."