Confabulation, n.
Etymology: [L. confabulatio.]
Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter. Burton.
Shades of meaning
Fernald has no entry of its own for confabulation; he lists it under conversation.
He lists it without comment; the entries above explain its neighbors.
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