figment

Definition

A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.

Etymology

From Late Latin figmentum (“anything made, a fiction”), from fingō (“make, form, feign”); see fiction, feign.

Example Sentences

• "a figment of one's imagination"
• "He had not seen sarcomeres: these segments were a figment of his imagination."
• "Perhaps, dear reader, you are only a figment in the dream of some god, as Sherlock Holmes was a figment in the mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"

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