confabulation

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This isn’t the same as confabulation, or making a false memory, because what is recalled really happened.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Mental health experts say it might be a sign of confabulation, a neurological disorder linked to dementia.

From Washington Times • Aug. 25, 2023

"So the question is: If there's something awry going on, was there hypnosis? Are they using confabulation?"

From Salon • Sep. 25, 2018

White House attempts to write the story off as a confabulation were undermined, however, by expressions of alarm on Capitol Hill.

From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2017

But this episode was symptomatic: even his love for me involved extending the fabric of his psychosis and confabulation.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee