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Circumstantiality vs Confabulation - What's the difference?

circumstantiality | confabulation |

As nouns the difference between circumstantiality and confabulation

is that circumstantiality is minute detail while confabulation is a casual conversation; a chat.

circumstantiality

English

Noun

(circumstantialities)
  • Minute detail.
  • *1842 ,
  • *:Plushkin's list was distinguished by a conciseness of exposition which had led to certain of the items being represented merely by Christian name, patronymic, and a couple of dots; and Sobakevitch's list was remarkable for its amplitude and circumstantiality , in that not a single peasant had such of his peculiar characteristics omitted as that the deceased had been "excellent at joinery," or "sober and ready to pay attention to his work."
  • An irrelevant detail that disturbs one's thought process.

    • confabulation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A casual conversation; a chat.
  • (psychology) A fabricated memory believed to be true.

    • Related terms

    * confabulator (noun ) * confabulatory (adjective ) * confabulate (verb ) * confab (derived verb )