confabulation

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /kənˌfæbjʊˈleɪʃən/    美 /kənˌfæbjʊˈleɪʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A casual conversation; a chat. countable,uncountable
    — […] Mrs Grantly was preparing herself for a grand attack which she was to make on her father, as agreed upon between herself and her husband during their curtain confabulation of that morning.
  2. A fabricated memory believed to be true, especially in someone with dementia or with encephalopathy from advanced alcoholism. countable,uncountable
    — 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).
  3. An assertion, statement, or text generated by a generative AI that is presented by that AI as if it were true but is in fact a made-up, false notion. countable,informal,uncountable

词形变化

confabulations plural

词汇关系

衍生词
confab
相关词
confabular confabulate confabulative confabulator confabulatory confabulist fable fabular fabulism fabulist fabulistic fabulousness

词源

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