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figment

[ 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.



figment

/ ˈfɪɡmənt /

noun

  1. a fantastic notion, invention, or fabrication

    a figment of the imagination



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Word History and Origins

Origin of figment1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Latin figmentum “something made or feigned,” equivalent to fig- (base of fingere “to mold, feign”) + -mentum -ment; fiction ( def )

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Word History and Origins

Origin of figment1

C15: from Late Latin figmentum a fiction, from Latin fingere to shape

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Synonym Study

See fiction.

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Example Sentences

But it turns out The Furies of Maidan is not a figment of his imagination.

Equally divided consensus says: a figment of her imagination, or Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr.

Despite aural evidence to the contrary, Mr. Bhatt, however, insisted the noise was a figment of my imagination.

We gave America its gangster legends—but our guy, Al Capone, was real, not a fictional figment like Vito Corleone or Tony Soprano.

That this whole thing was a figment of Mr. Hamblen's imagination.

This indeed was his spiritual and mental reality for her; the rest of him was a figment, a dream that might pass suddenly away.

And yet it is not true that matter is a pure figment of the imagination; it has an existence of its own, a potential existence.

The forms of government are abstractions, not names of realities, and their 'mixture' is a pure figment.

It was not that to my feelings the obligations were really a mere figment of pretence.

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