confabulating

Variant of confabulate

intransitive verb confabulated, confabulating

  1. to talk together in an informal way; chat
  2. Psychol. to fill in gaps in the memory with detailed accounts of fictitious events believed true by the narrator

Origin: < pp. of L confabulari, to talk together < com-, together + fabulari, to converse: see fable

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