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figment

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fig·ment  (fgmnt)
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
Noun
a figment of one's imagination something nonexistent and only imagined by someone [Latin fingere to shape]
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Noun1.figment - a contrived or fantastic idea; "a figment of the imagination"
idea, thought - the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind"
figment
noun invention, production, fancy, creation, fiction, fable, improvisation, fabrication, falsehood
Translations
Spanish figment [ˈfɪgmənt] n a figment of the imagination → un producto de la imaginación
French figment [ˈfɪgmənt] n a figment of the imagination → une invention
German figment [ˈfɪgmənt] n a figment of the imagination → ein Hirngespinst nt, pure Einbildung f
Italian figment [ˈfɪgmənt] n a figment of the imagination → un parto della fantasia
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She hoped that it might be but the figment of an overwrought imagination.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
From whence she had come, or what she had undergone he could not guess, but that her Korak and their life among the apes was but a figment of a disordered mind he could not doubt.
The Son Of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Lieutenant Harold Percy Smith-Oldwick was not only an English gentleman and an officer in name, he was also what these implied--a brave man; but when he realized that the sweet picture he had looked upon was but the figment of a dream, and that in reality he still lay where he had fallen at the foot of the grating with a lion standing over him licking his face, the tears sprang to his eyes and ran down his cheeks.
Tarzan the Untamed by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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