CONFABULATE

confer, confabulate, confab, consult

(verb) have a conference in order to talk something over; “We conferred about a plan of action”

confabulate

(verb) unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one’s memory

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

confabulate (third-person singular simple present confabulates, present participle confabulating, simple past and past participle confabulated)

(intransitive) To speak casually with; to chat.

(intransitive) To confer.

(ambitransitive, psychology) To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory.

Source: Wiktionary


Con*fab"u*late, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Confabulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Confabulating.] Etym: [L. confabulatus, p. p. of confabulary, to converse together; con- + fabulary to speak, fr. fabula. See Fable.]

Definition: To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle. I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no. Cowper.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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FENESTRATION

(noun) surgical procedure that creates a new fenestra to the cochlea in order to restore hearing lost because of osteosclerosis


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