About The Word Figment
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Figment
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What's The Definition Of Figment?
[n] a contrived or fantastic idea; "a figment of the imagination"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Figment: Related Terms | Find terms related to Figment: apparition | brainchild | bubble | canard | chimera | concoction | creation | daydream | delirium | dream | eidolon | extravaganza | fable | fabrication | fancy | fantasque | fantasy | fiction | forgery | hallucination | idle fancy | illusion | imagery | imagination | imagining | insubstantial image | invention | maggot | make-believe | myth | nightmare | phantasm | phantom | romance | sick fancy | thick-coming fancies | trip | vapor | vision | whim | whimsy | wildest dreams Figment In Webster's Dictionary \Fig"ment\, n. [L. figmentum, fr. fingere to form,
shape, invent, feign. See {Feign}.]
An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
Social figments, feints, and formalism. --Mrs.
Browning.
It carried rather an appearance of figment and
invention . . . than of truth and reality. --Woodward.
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