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Dictionary: fig·ment   (fĭg'mənt) pronunciation
n.
Something invented, made up, or fabricated: just a figment of the imagination.

[Middle English, from Latin figmentum, from fingere, to form.]


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noun

  1. An illusory mental image: daydream, dream, fancy, fantasy, fiction, illusion, phantasm, phantasma, reverie, vision. See real/imaginary.
  2. Any fictitious idea accepted as part of an ideology by an uncritical group; a received idea: creation, fantasy, fiction, invention, myth. See belief/unbelief, real/imaginary.

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Definition: dream
Antonyms: actuality, fact, reality


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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: Something imagined or made up.

pronunciation It was just a figment of the imagination when he saw the ghost float over the barn.

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Figment (from the latin fingere, meaning "to make") means:

  1. A construction (either physical or figurative).
  2. An invention (either physical or figurative).
  3. A figment of the imagination: Something imagined, something not real.

Figment may also refer to:


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Dansk (Danish)
n. - opspind

Nederlands (Dutch)
verdichtsel, verzinsel

Français (French)
n. - produit, produit (de l'imagination), invention

Deutsch (German)
n. - Hirngespinst

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - πλάσμα ή αποκύημα της φαντασίας, εφεύρημα

Italiano (Italian)
invenzione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - invenção (f) (algo imaginário)

Русский (Russian)
вымысел, фикция

Español (Spanish)
n. - invención, ficción

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - påfund

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
臆造的事物, 虚构的事

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 臆造的事物, 虛構的事

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 허구, 가공의 일

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 作り事, 作り話

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) شيء ملفق أو مختلق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮פרי הדמיון, המצאה‬


 
 
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