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confabulation

/kuhn-fab-yuh-ley-shuhn/US // kənˌfæb yəˈleɪ ʃən //

混淆视听,混淆概念,混乱,混淆视听的行为

Related Words

confab会议厅,会议中心,会议,大会dialogue对话,对话会,对话内容,对话中chitchat闲聊,调侃,闲谈,调侃一下palaver游手好闲,游说,闲杂人等,游说者discussion讨论,探讨,研讨,商讨converse匡威,匡时,匡威公司,匡威的speech讲话,发言,言语,演讲chat聊天,聊,闲聊,谈话chatter唠叨,喋喋不休,唠叨声,聊天talk说话,谈话,谈,谈论

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
    • : Psychiatry. the replacement of a gap in a person's memory by a falsification that he or she believes to be true.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounconversation
Synonyms
chat聊天,聊,闲聊,谈话chatter唠叨,喋喋不休,唠叨声,聊天chitchat闲聊,调侃,闲谈,调侃一下confab会议厅,会议中心,会议,大会converse匡威,匡时,匡威公司,匡威的dialogue对话,对话会,对话内容,对话中discussion讨论,探讨,研讨,商讨palaver游手好闲,游说,闲杂人等,游说者speech讲话,发言,言语,演讲talk说话,谈话,谈,谈论

Examples

  • This is most apparent in his discussion of the many forms of confabulation.

  • The constant disinformation, distraction, misdirection, confabulation, and endless stream of threats actually works.

  • The two girls put their heads together, and had a long confabulation.

  • One week certain mysterious persons would drop in, and sit in long confabulation.

  • He had eyed the three chiefs during their confabulation, and saw that the sailors were proceeding to pull his vessel to pieces.

  • Here, by an odd chance, just as we came to the school gate, we met Mr Jarman and Crofter walking out in deep confabulation.

  • Then Jake visited her, and, taking her out of the kitchen, had a long confabulation with her in the open.

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