Confabulatory

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Belonging to familiar speech; colloquial.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of the nature of familiar talk; in the form of a dialogue.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. colloquial
  • adjective. conversational
  • Word Usage
    "In normal subjects, the left hemisphere produces confabulatory explanations aimed at preserving the status quo (˜I'm not ill™; ˜My arm can move™), but the right hemisphere does its job and detects an anomaly between the hypotheses generated by the left hemisphere and reality."