confabulation
11confabulation — confabulatory /keuhn fab yoo leuh tawr ee, tohr ee/, adj. /keuhn fab yeuh lay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion. 2. Psychiatry. the replacement of a gap in a person s memory by a falsification that he or she… …
12confabulation — (kon fa bu la sion) s. f. Entretien familier. • Pour ce qui était de M. de Bouillon et de M. de Turenne, la confabulation fut bien plus longue, RETZ IV, 14. • Je ne monte pas à cette tribune pour éclairer les confabulations qu on vient de… …
13confabulation — confabulate ► VERB formal ▪ converse. DERIVATIVES confabulation noun. ORIGIN Latin confabulari chat together …
14Confabulation (neural networks) — A confabulation, also known as a false, degraded, or corrupted memory, is a stable pattern of activation in a neural network or neural assembly that does not correspond to any previously learned patterns. The same term is also applied to the… …
15confabulation — noun see confabulate …
16confabulation — noun /kənˌfæbjuˈleɪʃən/ a) A casual conversation; a chat. b) A fabricated memory believed to be true. See Also: confabulator, confabulatory, confabulate …
17confabulation — The making of bizarre and incorrect responses, and a readiness to give a fluent but tangential answer, with no regard whatever to facts, to any question put; seen in amnesia and Wernicke Korsakoff syndrome. [L. con fabulor, pp. fabulatus, to talk …
18confabulation — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Spoken exchange: chat, colloquy, conversation, converse1, dialogue, discourse, speech, talk. Informal: confab. Slang: jaw. See WORDS …
19confabulation — con·fab·u·la·tion || kÉ™n‚fæbjÊŠ leɪʃn n. light conversation …
20confabulation — n. (Rare.) Prattle, gossip, prate, chat, chit chat, easy conversation, free and easy talk, causerie …
