confabulation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun an informal conversation
noun (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered

From Middle English confabulacion (“conversation”), from Latin confābulātiōnem, from cōnfābulārī + -tiōnem.

“Is that the clue?” “Maybe.” Then followed the most singular of all our confabulations. — The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers
So the two girls put their heads together and held a long, mysterious confabulation. — What Katy Did, Susan Coolidge
There was a short confabulation; then again, silence; and I realized that they had called several more to assist. — The House on the Borderland, William Hope Hodgson

chat, confab, schmooze, schmoose

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