confabulation vs memory

confabulation and memory both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
confabulation	Yes	No	No	No
memory	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, memory is a hypernym of confabulation; that is, memory is a word with a broader meaning than confabulation:

confabulation: (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
memory: something that is remembered

confabulation (noun)	memory (noun)
(psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered	an electronic memory device
an informal conversation	the power of retaining and recalling past experience
	the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
	something that is remembered
	the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes