Usually means: Fabrication of memories unconsciously believed.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. confabulation: Merriam-Webster
  2. confabulation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confabulation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. confabulation: Vocabulary.com
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  6. confabulation: Wiktionary
  7. confabulation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. confabulation: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. confabulation: Dictionary.com
  10. Confabulation (neural networks), Confabulation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Confabulation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. confabulation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. confabulation: Rhymezone
  14. Confabulation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. confabulation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. confabulation: FreeDictionary.org
  17. confabulation: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confabulation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confabulation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. confabulation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Confabulation: MedFriendly Glossary
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  7. confabulation: Medical dictionary
  8. Confabulation: Brain Injury

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confabulation: The Skeptic's Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confabulation: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (confabulation)

noun:  A casual conversation; a chat.
noun:  (psychology) A fabricated memory believed to be true.

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