figment
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fig·ment
(fĭg'mənt) 
n.
Something invented, made up, or fabricated: just a figment of the imagination.
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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figment
noun
- An illusory mental image: daydream, dream, fancy, fantasy, fiction, illusion, phantasm, phantasma, reverie, vision. See real/imaginary.
- 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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figment
IN BRIEF: Something imagined or made up.
It was just a figment of the imagination when he saw the ghost float over the barn.
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categories related to 'figment'
- Intuition and Imagination - figment: something invented or contrived
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Figment
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
Português (Portuguese)
n. - invenção (f) (algo imaginário)
Русский (Russian)
вымысел, фикция
Español (Spanish)
n. - invención, ficción
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
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) شيء ملفق أو مختلق
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - פרי הדמיון, המצאה
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