adjective
- relating to or characterized by confabulation; involving the unconscious creation of false memories or filling in gaps in memory with fabricated details
Usage: psychology, neurology; formal
Examples
- The witness's confabulatory account mixed real events with invented details she believed to be true.
- Confabulatory tendencies can occur after brain injury or trauma.
- The patient's confabulatory responses suggested memory impairment rather than intentional deception.
- Researchers studied confabulatory mechanisms in aging populations.
- His confabulatory narrative seemed convincing but contained several fabricated elements.