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