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Confabulation vs Hallucination - What's the difference?

confabulation | hallucination |

As nouns the difference between confabulation and hallucination

is that confabulation is a casual conversation; a chat while hallucination is a sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion.

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 )

    hallucination

    English

    (wikipedia hallucination)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion.
  • :* Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity. -
  • The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder.
  • :* This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. -