CONFABULATION [\kon-FAB-yuh-lay-shuhn\] , noun:
1. Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.
2. (Psychology) A plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered.
My Sentence:
When I was young, my mother seemed to be popular with people. Going out with her could lead to a frustrating wait as she was always engaged into a long and never ending confabulation. Some of my teachers thought she was a teacher like them. No, she wasn't at all. She was only a well-read person.
Origin:
Confabulation comes from Late Latin confabulatio, from the past participle of Latin confabulari, "to talk together," from con-, "together, with" + fabulari, "to talk." It is related to fable, "a fiction, a tale," and to fabulous, "so incredible or astonishing as to resemble or suggest a fable."
