confabulation

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

confabulation
    n 1: an informal conversation [syn: {chat}, {confab},
         {confabulation}, {schmooze}, {schmoose}]
    2: (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in
       gaps in what is remembered

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Confabulation \Con*fab`u*la"tion\, n. [L. confabulatio.]
   Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious
   conversation.
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         Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times,
         as fire in winter.                       --Burton.
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