Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun confabulation

2 senses of confabulation

Sense 1
chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose -- (an informal conversation)
       => conversation -- (the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.)

Sense 2
confabulation -- ((psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered)
       => memory -- (something that is remembered; "search as he would, the memory was lost")