Word every Gracious Individual should know: Confabulation
Definition: Confabulation; (Pronounced: kon-FAB-yuh-lay-shuhn); Latin; noun
1. Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.
2. (Psychology) A plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered.
Why I love this word:
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."
Photograph by F.E. Castleberry
Definition: Confabulation; (Pronounced: kon-FAB-yuh-lay-shuhn); Latin; noun
1. Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.
2. (Psychology) A plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered.
Why I love this word:
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."
Photograph by F.E. Castleberry