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fig⋅ment

[fig-muhnt]
–noun
1. a mere product of mental invention; a fantastic notion: The noises in the attic were just a figment of his imagination.
2. a feigned, invented, or imagined story, theory, etc.: biographical and historical figments.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME < L figmentum something made or feigned, equiv. to fig- (base of fingere to mold, feign) + -mentum -ment


2. See fiction.
fig·ment   (fĭg'mənt)   
n.  Something invented, made up, or fabricated: just a figment of the imagination.

[Middle English, from Latin figmentum, from fingere, to form; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots.]

Figment

Fig"ment\, n. [L. figmentum, fr. fingere to form, shape, invent, feign. See Feign.] An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.

Social figments, feints, and formalism. --Mrs. Browning.

It carried rather an appearance of figment and invention . . . than of truth and reality. --Woodward.
Language Translation for : figment
Spanish: cosa imaginada,
German: die Einbildung,
Japanese: 空想の産物

figment 
1432, from L. figmentum "something formed or fashioned, creation," related to figura "shape" (see figure (n.)).
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