figment
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mənt 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.
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| —n | |
| a fantastic notion, invention, or fabrication: a figment of the imagination | |
| [C15: from Late Latin figmentum a fiction, from Latin fingere to shape] | |
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Figment
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Word Origin & History
figment
early 15c., from L. figmentum "something formed or fashioned, creation," related to figura "shape" (see figure (n.)).
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Example sentences
The country is ruined and divided, its state a figment.
It could be a figment of the collective imagination of the world's amateur satellite trackers.
She tells her father, but he thinks it a figment of her imagination and that she is spending too much time with the strange loner.
Regardless of your thoughts on the matter, time is not a figment of human imagination.
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