I proposed[1] the portmanteau "hallucofabulation" as a compromise, but it hasn't...

brookst · 2024-04-11T20:56:57 1712869017

The re-use of the "c" as a soft c in "hallucinate" and then a hard c in confabulate is confusing, and probably affecting the uptake of your neologism.

fhars · 2024-04-11T21:21:22 1712870482

Yes, it would probably have to be halucinfabulation for purely phonetic reasons.

mindcrime · 2024-04-11T22:16:23 1712873783

Maybe if I added a hyphen? "halluco-fabulation"?

singingfish · 2024-04-12T08:00:58 1712908858

would lead to hafabulation. Still not acceptable in my view - confabulation is clearly the correct term

randomcarbloke · 2024-04-12T08:41:23 1712911283

but confabulation sufficiently describes the phenomenon without the need for ugly neologisms.

mcmcmc · 2024-04-12T00:07:16 1712880436

It would probably help if you didn't drop the "n" from the confabulation part.