| 单词 | confabulation |
| 释义 | confabulation (once / 29402 pages) 1n 2n If you're chatting away for hours to your old college friend who you haven't seen in years, that's a confabulation — a personal, often rambling and generally wide-ranging conversation. A second, slightly sinister and less common meaning for confabulation is a false memory that someone creates to fill out gaps where real experience has been too traumatic to recall. As with the more common and happier meaning, both types of confabulation generally imply a good deal of creative, free-wheeling association. WORD FAMILYconfabulation: confabulations+/confabulate: confabulated, confabulating, confabulation USAGE EXAMPLESBerger is a keen swimmer and, in Confabulations, writes brilliantly about the democracy of swimming – people stripped of telltale trappings, doing their lengths. The Guardian(Oct 30, 2016) Having played it, I can say it’s definitely that odd, a confabulation of quirks and insights that manages to balance both deftly. Time(Sep 29, 2016) We can find signs of a narrative in the images collected in the new book “Confabulations,” by the Norwegian photographer Torbjørn Rødland. The New Yorker(Jun 12, 2016) 1 n an informal conversation 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper chat, confab, schmoose, schmooze causerie, chin wag, chin wagging, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chit chat, chit-chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle light informal conversation for social occasions conversation the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc. n (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered Hyper memory something that is remembered |
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