confabulate vs schmooze

confabulate is not a noun while schmooze is a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
confabulate	No	No	Yes	No
schmooze	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, schmooze is a hyponym of confabulate; that is, schmooze is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than confabulate:

Other hyponyms of confabulate include jawbone, schmoose, shmoose, shmooze.

confabulate (noun)	schmooze (noun)
	an informal conversation

confabulate (verb)	schmooze (verb)
talk socially without exchanging too much information	talk idly or casually and in a friendly way
have a conference in order to talk something over
unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory