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Meaning of "confabulatory" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONFABULATORY

confabulatory  [kənˈfæbjʊlətərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONFABULATORY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Confabulatory is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CONFABULATORY 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 confabulatory in the English dictionary

The definition of confabulatory in the dictionary is of or relating to the replacement of the gaps left by a disorder of the memory with imaginary remembered experiences consistently believed to be true.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONFABULATORY


ambulatory
ˈæmbjʊlətərɪ
condolatory
kənˈdəʊlətərɪ
deambulatory
diːˈæmbjʊlətərɪ
dilatory
ˈdɪlətərɪ
ejaculatory
ɪˈdʒækjʊlətərɪ
emasculatory
ɪˈmæskjʊlətərɪ
funambulatory
fjuːˈnæmbjʊlətərɪ
interjaculatory
ˌɪntəˈdʒækjʊlətərɪ
manipulatory
məˈnɪpjʊlətərɪ
modulatory
ˈmɒdjʊlətərɪ
osculatory
ˈɒskjʊlətərɪ
osmoregulatory
ˌɒzməʊˈrɛɡjʊlətərɪ
ovulatory
ˈɒvjʊlətərɪ
perambulatory
pəˈræmbjʊlətərɪ
preovulatory
priːˈɒvjʊlətərɪ
simulatory
ˈsɪmjʊlətərɪ
speculatory
ˈspɛkjʊlətərɪ
stimulatory
ˈstɪmjʊlətərɪ
stipulatory
ˈstɪpjʊlətərɪ
undulatory
ˈʌndjʊlətərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONFABULATORY

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confectioner
confectioner´s
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confectioneries
confectioners´ sugar
confectionery

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONFABULATORY

anti-inflammatory
circulatory
conservatory
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directory
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explanatory
exploratory
inflammatory
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mandatory
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observatory
oscillatory
participatory
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regulatory
research laboratory
respiratory

Synonyms and antonyms of confabulatory in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «confabulatory» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONFABULATORY

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The translations of confabulatory from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «confabulatory» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

confabulatory
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

confabulatoria
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confabulatory
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Translator English - Hindi

confabulatory
380 millions of speakers
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confabulatory
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confabulatory
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confabulatory
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confabulatory
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confabulatory
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Translator English - Malay

Confabulatory
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

konfabulatorischen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

confabulatory
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

confabulatory
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Confabulatory
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

confabulatory
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

confabulatory
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गोंधळात टाकणारे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

confabulatory
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

confabulatory
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

confabulatory
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

confabulatory
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

confabulatory
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

confabulatory
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

confabulatory
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

confabulatory
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

confabulatory
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of confabulatory

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFABULATORY»

The term «confabulatory» is used very little and occupies the 189.581 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFABULATORY» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONFABULATORY»

Discover the use of confabulatory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to confabulatory and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Classification of Endogenous Psychoses and their ...
driacal component also explains the phonemes which are found regularly in connection with confabulatory processes. For example, they say that the patients' hands should be tied together in order to look inside their bodies. Sometimes ...
Karl Leonhard, Helmut Beckmann, 1999
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Selected Papers on Language and the Brain
The patient will then respond in many instances by using the technique of confabulatory completion that I have discussed above and for which I have already cited experimental evidence. The confabulatory response may perhaps be ...
N. Geschwind, 1974
3
Confabulation: Views from Neuroscience, Psychiatry, ...
Feinberg and colleagues (1994) wanted to learn if patients with anosognosia have a propensity to confabulate in other domains, a confabulatory state. To learn if patients with anosognosia have a confabulatory state, these investigators  ...
William Hirstein, 2009
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The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and ...
Reflecting on the possibility that Nicholas, who observed her "first true healing," would retire as her "confabulatory" witness, and foreshadowing his replacement in the epilogue, Harlan states: "Course there's probably a lot of fakers that hires ...
Bernard W. Bell, 2004
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Memory, Consciousness and Temporality
The past of the patient who confabulates is, however, by definition, a confabulatory past, the memories he reports are false. But it is not only the memories which are false, the present and the future of the person who confabulates are also false ...
Gianfranco Dalla Barba, 2002
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Bearing Witness to African American Literature: Validating ...
Reflecting on the possibility that Nicholas, the Afro-German's bodyguard, would retire as her “confabulatory” witness, and foreshadowing his replacement in the epilogue, Harlan states: Course there's probably a lot of fakers that hires ...
Bernard W. Bell, 2012
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Disordered Thinking and the Rorschach: Theory, Research, and ...
... 87,115,202 reality testing and,179¥182 subtypes, 172 Confabulation Tendency, 178 confabulatory activity, continuum of, 175¥180, 184 diagnostic implications, 180¥181 confabulatory approaches tothe Rorschach, 165¥166 confabulatory ...
James H. Kleiger, 2013
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The Rorschach: A Developmental Perspective
suggest that the “confused percepts and concepts” Ames describes as characteristic of three and fouryearolds (e.g., “a fireplace with feet”) are also confabulatory in nature. Finally, children in this stagegivethat purestof confabulations,the ...
Martin Leichtman, 2013
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Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Rorschach
In stagetwo, the perseverative tendencies noted in the previous stage abate and different responses are given to each card.These responses, however, reflect a confabulatory mode of concept formation characterized by confabulatory whole ...
Paul M. Lerner, 2013
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A Textbook of Neuroanatomy
confabulatory. syndrome. (Korsakoff's. syndrome). Amnestic confabulatory syndrome is a disorder that most often results from thiamin nutritional deficiency in chronic alcoholism Amnestic confabulatory syndrome is a disorder that most ...
Maria Patestas, Leslie P. Gartner, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONFABULATORY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term confabulatory is used in the context of the following news items.
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What prompts us to help others?
"Humans are extremely social and we are also extremely confabulatory. So it is possible that the stories we construct about the motives to our ... «New Kerala, Jun 15»
2
Ismail Lagardien
I lack any deep insight into neurological and psychiatric concepts of confabulatory amnesia. My understanding of the process of confabulation ... «Daily Maverick, May 15»
3
Chu-Xi Meeting: Neither Historic Nor Groundbreaking
... reaffirmations of the confabulatory-yet-useful “1992 consensus” as the basis for such exchanges, economic cooperation and other issues. «The Diplomat, May 15»
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To get beyond debates over science, Dan Kahan seeks their roots
On encountering such a culturally contaminated topic, Kahan says, they open "a confabulatory escape hatch from the trap that logic would ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov 14»
5
The Second Coming of Sigmund Freud
The bewildered patient makes up ludicrous stories to explain the world, a condition called confabulatory amnesia. To Solms, it was fascinating. «Discover Magazine, Mar 14»
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Nick Cave drops some dark science with his newly configured Bad …
The "Higgs Boson Blues," known to at least one confabulatory music fan as "the catchiest song" on the new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ... «Lynchburg News and Advance, Feb 13»
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Phantom Finger Points To Secrets In The Human Brain
... RN made up her phantom index finger, that her phantom is a lie, or, as they put it, "confabulatory in origin." (How delicate these scientists are!) ... «NPR, Jun 12»
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Pilgrim's Progress
In an emotional scene, one of Scott's exes calls him out for his self-dramatizing, confabulatory way of moving through the world. With all the ... «New York Times, Sep 10»
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The Anosognosic's Dilemma: Something's Wrong but You'll Never …
So this sort of confabulatory thing is very common, but it's just a very striking manifestation of it. No normal person would dream of making up a ... «New York Times, Jun 10»
10
Jeff Beck – Emotion & Commotion
A facet of an altogether tempestuous career, that's as equally courageous as it is commendable as it is confabulatory. Not for nothing is he, ... «Consequence of Sound, Apr 10»

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