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    [Verb]  | "con*fab*u*late" | \ kən-ˈfa-byə-ˌlāt \


    1: to talk informally : chat

    2: to hold a discussion : confer

    3: to fill in gaps in memory by fabrication


    Origin: circa 1604 ;

     Borrowed from Latin confābulātus, past participle of confābulārī "to talk together, converse," from con- {see: |con-|com-} + fābulārī "to talk, converse, invent a story, make up a fable," derivative of fābula "talk, gossip, tale, legend"; (sense 3) translation of German konfabulieren{mat|fable:1|};

      * Note : The psychiatric term was introduced by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939). Both Konfabulation and konfabulieren are found in his Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie (Berlin, 1916), p. 79.;

    [Verb]  | "confabulated" 


    1: to exchange viewpoints or seek advice for the purpose of finding a solution to a problem;


      * e.g., " ... an Alzheimer's support group in which caregivers can confabulate as well as commiserate "



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    [Verb]  | "confabulate" 


    1: to exchange viewpoints or seek advice for the purpose of finding a solution to a problem;


      * e.g., " ... an Alzheimer's support group in which caregivers can confabulate as well as commiserate "



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