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The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.
Robin Marantz Henig

Meaning of "confabulation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONFABULATION

confabulation  [kənˌfæbjʊˈleɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONFABULATION

noun
adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Confabulation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CONFABULATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Confabulation

In psychology, confabulation is a memory disturbance, defined as the production of fabricated, distorted or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive. Confabulation is distinguished from lying as there is no intent to deceive and the person is unaware the information is false. Although individuals can present blatantly false information, confabulation can also seem to be coherent, internally consistent, and relatively normal. Individuals who confabulate present incorrect memories ranging from "subtle alternations to bizarre fabrications", and are generally very confident about their recollections, despite contradictory evidence. Most known cases of confabulation are symptomatic of brain damage or dementias, such as aneurysm, Alzheimer's disease, or Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome. Two types of confabulation are often distinguished: Provoked confabulations represent a normal response to a faulty memory, are common in both amnesia and dementia, and can become apparent during memory tests. Spontaneous confabulations do not occur in response to a cue and seem to be involuntary.

Definition of confabulation in the English dictionary

The definition of confabulation in the dictionary is conversation; chat, or. Other definition of confabulation is replacement of the gaps left by a disorder of the memory with imaginary remembered experiences consistently believed to be true.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONFABULATION


calculation
ˌkælkjʊˈleɪʃən
cancellation
ˌkænsɪˈleɪʃən
circulation
ˌsɜːkjʊˈleɪʃən
compilation
ˌkɒmpɪˈleɪʃən
correlation
ˌkɒrɪˈleɪʃən
formulation
ˌfɔːmjʊˈleɪʃən
installation
ˌɪnstəˈleɪʃən
insulation
ˌɪnsjʊˈleɪʃən
isolation
ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən
legislation
ˌlɛdʒɪsˈleɪʃən
manipulation
məˌnɪpjʊˈleɪʃən
musculation
ˌmʌskjʊˈleɪʃən
mutilation
ˌmjuːtɪˈleɪʃən
population
ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən
regulation
ˌrɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən
relation
rɪˈleɪʃən
simulation
ˌsɪmjʊˈleɪʃən
translation
trænsˈleɪʃən
ventilation
ˌvɛntɪˈleɪʃən
violation
ˌvaɪəˈleɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONFABULATION

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WORDS THAT END LIKE CONFABULATION

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Synonyms and antonyms of confabulation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CONFABULATION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «confabulation» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of confabulation

Translation of «confabulation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONFABULATION

Find out the translation of confabulation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of confabulation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «confabulation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

虚构
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

confabulación
570 millions of speakers

English

confabulation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बातचीत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المسامرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

конфабуляция
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

confabulação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গল্পকরণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

confabulation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesabaran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

confabulation
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

懇談
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

간담
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Confabulation
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cuộc đàm luận
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

confabulation
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गोंधळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

konfabülasyon
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

confabulazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zmyślenie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

конфабуляция
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

taifas
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μυθοπλασίες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vertroulik gesprek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

confabulation
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

confabulation
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of confabulation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFABULATION»

The term «confabulation» is regularly used and occupies the 87.829 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFABULATION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about confabulation

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QUOTES WITH «CONFABULATION»

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Robin Marantz Henig
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONFABULATION»

Discover the use of confabulation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to confabulation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Confabulation: Views from Neuroscience, Psychiatry, ...
This interdisciplinary book brings together some of the leading thinkers on confabulation in neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, & philosophy.
William Hirstein, 2009
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Brain Fiction: Self-deception and the Riddle of Confabulation
The phenomenon of confabulation—the tendency to construct plausible-sounding but false answers and believe that they are true—and what it can tell us about the human mind and human nature.
William Hirstein, 2005
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Confabulation Theory: The Mechanism of Thought
The results suggest that confabulation theory can provide the universal platform for building intelligent machines. In short, this book explains how thinking works and establishes the foundation for building machines that think.
Robert Hecht-Nielsen, 2007
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Memory Distortion: How Minds, Brains, and Societies ...
Thus, like normal remembering, confabulation involves the reconstruction of the context and modification and combination of elements and can be influenced by personality. Confabulation occurs because one or more of the mechanisms of ...
Daniel L Schacter, PhD, 1997
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What a piece of work I am: a confabulation
What a Piece of Work I Am is the story of her extraordinary career and the process of self-creation that it both requires and inspires. Like a thread through a labyrinth, her story takes many a strange turn.
Eric Kraft, 1994
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Medical-legal and Forensic Aspects of Communication ...
There are three non-traumatic induced temporal lobe damage and cooccurring neurogenic communication disorders psychological concomitants: denial of disability, projection, and jargon-confabulation. They are likely to be a part of the  ...
Dennis C. Tanner, 2007
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Post-priming Confabulation: Self-attribution of Goal Pursuit ...
As a whole, this work integrates research on self-attribution and unconscious goal pursuit, and provides new evidence and theory about these lines of research, the formation of self-beliefs, and the interplay between human behavior and ...
Yoav Bar-Anan, 2009
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Altered Egos: How the Brain Creates the Self
fantastic confabulation. It may also be the case that these confabulations reflect the patient's motivation, affect, and wishes to a greater degree than the momentary variety. Patients with both varieties of confabulation—momentary and the more ...
Todd E. Feinberg, 2002
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Neurobehavior of Language and Cognition: Studies of Normal ...
CONFABULATION Patients with neurological disorders may confabulate responses. By the term confabulation we mean a response that is not rooted in reality and is not motivated by a desire to mislead. Although anosognosia may be  ...
Martin L. Albert, Lisa Tabor Connor, Loraine K. Obler, 2000
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Forensic Aspects of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Many patients with dementia have one or more of the following verbal manifestations of the disorder: circumlocution, confabulation, perseveration- echolalia, logorrhea, and tangential speech. They may oc- cur at any stage or level and are ...
Dennis C. Tanner, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONFABULATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term confabulation is used in the context of the following news items.
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Mary-Louise Parker on Heisenberg and 'comedy in the pitch black'
... Burns, a middle-aged woman given to confession and confabulation, enters an elderly butcher's shop and pummels him with questions. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Author shares stories of trauma and madness
A: “Confabulation” is when someone ends up lying who doesn't quite realize they're lying. It's a well-documented but really strange condition. «La Crosse Tribune, Jul 15»
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Five things to watch out for today
German and French leaders had called for an urgent confabulation after Greek voters rejected creditor demands for further austerity. The HRD ... «Hindu Business Line, Jul 15»
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Two philosophers explain what Inside Out gets wrong about the mind
Some of these issues of confabulation and distortion may well be familiar from the hit podcast Serial. The science of memory plays a huge role ... «Vox, Jun 15»
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Wes Carroll brings show filled with volume, groove and emotion
His Confabulation quartet, with saxophonist Monik Nordine, keyboardist Tony Genge and drummer Jon Miller, will take to the stage on Sunday ... «Cowichan Valley Citizen, Jun 15»
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Is going to MSNBC a blessing in disguise for Brian Williams?
... wanting his old job back and being unable to respond to what amounts to national ridicule as a facile synonym for confabulation or outright ... «Poynter.org, Jun 15»
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Analysing Aaronovitch: has the scourge of 'conspiracists' become …
... flying panics: "vectors of memory contagion" spread the usual suspects: hysteria, fantasy and confabulation, ideology and careerists. Dr Clare ... «Open Democracy, Jun 15»
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At SICPP, modernism in moderation on Monday
Two other works paid homage, indirect and direct, to a late master of musical confabulation, Elliott Carter. Jeffrey Mumford's “through the ... «Boston Globe, Jun 15»
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Why Did Rachel Do it? On Dolezal, Identity, and the Construction of …
Problem was, the book was a “confabulation from start to finish” (83). The author was in fact not Jewish at all, and had no Jewish ancestry; ... «Patheos, Jun 15»
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Moving On: 'FTLOG, Caitlyn Jenner Is Not Pretending to Be a Woman'
I can add confabulation, an old-fashioned ruse, or maybe simply a padding of the résumé which got out of hand years ago and fit so well she ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»

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