1.
[syn: chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose]
2. (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Confabulation \Con*fab`u*la"tion\, n. [L. confabulatio.]
Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious
conversation.
[1913 Webster]
Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times,
as fire in winter. --Burton.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
confabulation
n 1: an informal conversation [syn: chat, confab,
confabulation, schmooze, schmoose]
2: (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in
gaps in what is remembered