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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
Word History and Origins
Origin of figment1
Word History and Origins
Origin of figment1
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Example Sentences
Other classic Halloween characters, like ghosts, are just figments of our imagination.
That’s a figment of his imagination and obviously being used for political advancement.
Instead, it sets up an end-of-first-act plot twist where we find out that Joe has been talking to a figment of his imagination all along.
This is Sam’s “double,” a figment of his imagination that offers advice that often contradicts what Sam wants to do.
The “discourse” online is between figments of ourselves, ghosts in dialogue.
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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