An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
CONFABULATION
confabulation
(noun) (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose
(noun) an informal conversation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
confabulation (countable and uncountable, plural confabulations)
A casual conversation; a chat.
(psychology) A fabricated memory believed to be true.
Source: Wiktionary
Con*fab`u*la"tion, n. Etym: [L. confabulatio.]
Definition: Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter. Burton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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