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单词 confabulate
释义

Definition of confabulate in English:

confabulate

verb kənˈfabjʊleɪtkənˈfæbjəˌleɪt
[no object]
  • 1formal Engage in conversation; talk.

    she could be heard on the telephone confabulating with someone
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This was confabulated into Christian mythology, the converted Norse intertwining the character with one of the first saints of the region, Saint Nicholas.
    • Since the story broke, six staffers, including two senior editors, have spent more than 6,000 man hours attending commission hearings, and confabulating with as many as 12 lawyers.
    • Some people purchased them, and, when asked why, were quite ready to volunteer one confabulated answer or another.
    • Broken cultures therapeutically confabulate, mythologise former ways of life, and fight off meaninglessness by shoring up crumbling identities.
    • Chances are, you can get a large percentage of your family members confabulating with you on something that simply couldn't have happened, given that Bugs Bunny is a Warner Brothers character.
    Synonyms
    talk, speak, chat, have a conversation, have a talk, have a discussion, discourse
  • 2Psychiatry
    Fabricate imaginary experiences as compensation for loss of memory.

    she has lapses in attention and concentration—she may be confabulating a little
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Does the person fumble, confabulate, get defensive and angry, etc.
    • R. has come a long way but she still confabulates and struggles with short-term memory loss.
    • People who confabulate experience their false memories as true.
    • Why the brain stimulates and confabulates just the memories it does remains a mystery, though there are several plausible explanations.
    • Neuropsychological evidence points towards our tendency to confabulate stories that we believe to be true in order to fit together disparate pieces of information.

Derivatives

  • confabulation

  • noun kənˌfabjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)nkənˌfæbjəˈleɪʃ(ə)n
    • To skeptical critics this is warning sign: the memories are confabulations suggested by prodding, suggestive therapy.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A responsible therapist has a duty to help a patient sort out delusion from reality, dreams and confabulations from truth, and real abuse from imagined abuse.
      • After long confabulations, the tribal elders told him that only the old people would act in his movie.
      • He claims it was after confabulation with the Pope.
      • The story that she couldn't remember appears to be a complete Pentagon confabulation in order to cover up the phoniness of the whole operation.
  • confabulatory

  • adjective kənˈfabjʊlət(ə)rikənˈfæbjələˌtɔri
    • So to enter the example of Korsakoff's psychosis, this is also known as confabulatory amnesia, which has essentially two features: the one is that the patient is unable to lay down any new memories.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He confided to me in a loud confabulatory whisper.
      • Jones's skillfully woven novel is filled with colorful characters which somehow also achieve three-dimensionality; its stories are sometimes what Harlan calls ‘confabulatory’ but still manage both credibility and poignancy.
      • Nor were they confabulatory like this patient with viral encephalitis, whose short term memory lasted several minutes.
      • Individual differences in hypnotic ability were associated with erroneous and confabulatory recall in the hypnosis and CI conditions but not in the MRR condition.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin confabulat- 'chatted together', from the verb confabulari, from con- 'together' + fabulari (from fabula 'fable').

Rhymes

tabulate
 
 

Definition of confabulate in US English:

confabulate

verbkənˈfabyəˌlātkənˈfæbjəˌleɪt
[no object]
  • 1formal Engage in conversation; talk.

    she could be heard on the telephone confabulating with someone
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Since the story broke, six staffers, including two senior editors, have spent more than 6,000 man hours attending commission hearings, and confabulating with as many as 12 lawyers.
    • Broken cultures therapeutically confabulate, mythologise former ways of life, and fight off meaninglessness by shoring up crumbling identities.
    • This was confabulated into Christian mythology, the converted Norse intertwining the character with one of the first saints of the region, Saint Nicholas.
    • Some people purchased them, and, when asked why, were quite ready to volunteer one confabulated answer or another.
    • Chances are, you can get a large percentage of your family members confabulating with you on something that simply couldn't have happened, given that Bugs Bunny is a Warner Brothers character.
    Synonyms
    talk, speak, chat, have a conversation, have a talk, have a discussion, discourse
  • 2Psychiatry
    Fabricate imaginary experiences as compensation for loss of memory.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • People who confabulate experience their false memories as true.
    • Neuropsychological evidence points towards our tendency to confabulate stories that we believe to be true in order to fit together disparate pieces of information.
    • Why the brain stimulates and confabulates just the memories it does remains a mystery, though there are several plausible explanations.
    • R. has come a long way but she still confabulates and struggles with short-term memory loss.
    • Does the person fumble, confabulate, get defensive and angry, etc.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin confabulat- ‘chatted together’, from the verb confabulari, from con- ‘together’ + fabulari (from fabula ‘fable’).

 
 
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