confabulation
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (psychology) A fabricated memory believed to be true, especially in someone suffering from dementia.Examples: "For Örulv and Hydén, confabulation is ‘world-making’ (669). What the person with AD chooses to enunciate, ‘may capture something important in the way the person makes sense of his or her life and also make meaning-based connections’ (Hydén and Örulv 2009: 206)."; "Segal said another characteristic of Trump’s questionable mental acuity is confabulation. “It’s where he takes an idea or something that’s happened and he adds to it things that have not happened.”"countableuncountable
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