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词汇 confabulate
释义 confabulate
verb
uk /kənˈfæb.jə.leɪt/ us /kənˈfæb.jə.leɪt/

confabulateverb (UNREAL EXPERIENCE)


[ I or T ] psychology specialized
to invent experiences or events that did not really happen: (因为虚构症的缘故而)虚谈,虚构
He came to believe that these patients were confabulating.他开始相信这些病人是患上了虚构症。
He confabulated a version in which the President praised him for the good work he was doing.他头脑中虚构了一个版本,说总统赞扬他工作出色。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

True, real, false, and unreal
actual
actuality
actually
all that glitters is not goldidiom
alternate reality
false flag
falsely
fantastical
fever dream
fictional
not so muchidiom
nothing could be further from the truthidiom
nothing could have been further from my mind/thoughtsidiom
parallel universe
post-factual
unreal
untrue
untruly
unverifiable
urban myth

confabulateverb (CONVERSATION)


[ I ]formal
to have a conversation: 闲谈;交谈
It was just two old friends confabulating.这不过是两个老朋友在闲谈而已。
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Informal talking & conversation
a problem shared is a problem halvedidiom
banter
bantering
banteringly
bants
bloviate
bull session
buzz
catch
chew the fatidiom
conversation
conversational
gambit
pass
persiflage
put the world to rightsidiom
speech
take/lead someone on/to one sideidiom
talk some sense into sbidiom
tête-à-tête

confabulateverb (FALSE INFORMATION)


[ I or T ]
When an artificial intelligence (= a computer system that has some of the qualities that the human brain has, such as the ability to produce language in a way that seems human) confabulates, it produces false information:
The AI tends to confabulate by "making up" details to fill in a story.
When you feed the model its own output, the confabulated text becomes gradually more divergent from human-written text.
Synonym
hallucinate
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Computer concepts
2FA
2SV
3-D printing
adaptive learning
additive manufacturing
HCI
hex
hexadecimal
hill climbing
home automation
infection
simulation
stack
telematic
telematics
telerobotics
teraflop
tether
texture
word processing

Examples of confabulate


confabulate
People who are led to do odd actions through post-hypnotic suggestion, for example, often confabulate reasons for their action.
Rather, they must confabulate an answer that seems plausible, relying on inferences and reasoning not unlike that used by the child in understanding another's subjective perspective.
However, rather than acknowledge their lack of insight, they confabulate a plausible explanation, and seem to be unaware of their unawareness.
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Individuals who confabulate present incorrect memories ranging from subtle alterations to bizarre fabrications, and are generally very confident about their recollections, despite contradictory evidence.
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What are the important differences between patients with similar etiology who do and do not confabulate?
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Research has shown that patients with damage to the inferior medial frontal lobe confabulate significantly more than patients with damage to the posterior area and healthy controls.
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In an interview setting, people are more likely to confabulate in situations in which they are presented false information by another person, as opposed to when they self-generate these falsehoods.
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