Third-person singular present form; when someone unconsciously fills gaps in their memory with false or invented details that they believe to be true.
From Latin 'confabulari' with -ates third-person singular ending, describing the ongoing habit of creating false memories.
Your brain confabulates constantly—filling in details of conversations you had weeks ago, or 'remembering' things that fit your mental narrative but didn't actually happen that way.
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