confabulate
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
General verb
To fabricate imaginary experiences as a substitute for the truth, often unknowingly.
The patient would confabulate detailed memories of trips he had never taken.
Medicine verb
To unconsciously fill gaps in memory with fabricated details believed to be true.
The patient tended to confabulate when asked about events from the missing days in hospital.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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