English Dictionary
Definition of “figment”
figment (ˈfɪɡmənt
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Definitions
noun
- a fantastic notion, invention, or fabrication ⇒
a figment of the imagination
Word Origin
C15: from Late Latin figmentum a fiction, from Latin fingere to shape
Usage examples
Was this totally absurd, the figment of a tired mind -- or was it true?
Leasor, James, Tank of Serpents (1986)But her rags-to-riches story is no figment of imagination...
Business Today (1996)"This was described by the spokesman as "a figment of imagination, baseless and nonsensical.
Samachar (2004)Swift is mocking Berkeley's philosophical view that matter is unreal, and that the world is a figment in the mind of god.
Times, Sunday Times (2002)Others, reversing the two elements, claimed that only the visible was real; the invisible principle was a figment of human imagination.
Montgomery, Daniel B, Fire in the Lotus - the dynamic Buddhism of Nichiren (1991)
