单词 | confabulation |
释义 | confabulationn. 1. a. Talking together; a familiar talk or conversation; chat. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat confabulationc1450 device1490 chat1573 tittle-tattle?c1640 small talk1650 confab1701 chit-chat1710 jaw1748 small-talking1786 prose1787 rap1787 coze1804 talky-talky1812 clack1813 chit-chatting1823 cozey1837 gossip1849 mardlea1852 yarn1857 conflab1873 chinwag1879 chopsing1879 cooze1880 chatting1884 schmoozing1884 talky-talk1884 pitch1888 schmooze1895 coosy1903 wongi1929 yap1930 kibitz1931 natter1943 old talk1956 jaw-jaw1958 yacking1959 ole talk1964 rapping1967 c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis Imitation of Christ iii. lvii. 134 Þi consolacions are not as mannes talkinges or confabulacions. a1535 T. More Godly Medit. in Wks. (1557) II. 1417/1 To abstaine from vaine confabulacions. 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) ii. ii. vi. i. 242 Friends confabulations are comfortable at all times. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie 21. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xxxiii. 16 Sheldon espied us, out of a Window, holding a long Confabulation. 1801 M. Edgeworth Mlle Panache ii, in Moral Tales III. 89 His lordship was engaged in confabulation with his groom. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xvi When they went off for a private confabulation at night. b. humorously. A conference. ΚΠ 1845 E. Robinson Whitehall III. ix. 96 Said Cromwell, rising, an example which was followed by the whole confabulation. 2. Psychiatry. The action of confabulate v. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > memory disorders > act of fabricating memories confabulation1924 1924 A. A. Brill tr. E. Bleuler Textbk. Psychiatry ii. 106 Memory hallucinations which endow a phantasy with reality..must be taken in the strict sense as confabulations. 1924 A. A. Brill tr. E. Bleuler Textbk. Psychiatry ii. 107 The most vivid confabulations are seen in many alcoholic Korsakoff cases. 1942 Lemkau & Kronenberg tr. Rorschach Psychodiagnostics iv. 104 Features of confabulation become predominant and overcome the consciousness of the unreality of the product of imagination. 1961 A. S. MacNalty Brit. Med. Dict. 341/1 Confabulation, the recital of experiences that have no foundation in fact and the glib untruthful answering of questions usually in compensation for a gap in memory. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1450 |
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