confabulation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an informal conversation
    confab; schmoose; chat; schmooze.
  2. noun (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered

WordNet

Con*fab`u*la"tion noun
Etymology
L. confabulatio.
Definitions
  1. Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.
    Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter. Burton.

Webster 1913