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Confabulatory

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con·fab·u·late  (kn-fby-lt)
intr.v. con·fab·u·lat·ed, con·fab·u·lat·ing, con·fab·u·lates
1. To talk casually; chat.
2. Psychology To fill in gaps in one's memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts.
[Latin cnfbulr, cnfbult- : com-, com- + fbulr, to talk (from fbula, conversation; see fable).]
con·fabu·lation n.
con·fabu·lator n.
con·fabu·la·tory (-l-tôr, -tr) adj.


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