confabulation
con·fa·bu·lation
noun
2.
(psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
Origin
From Middle English confabulacion (“conversation”), from Latin confābulātiōnem, from cōnfābulārī + -tiōnem.
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