figment
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Definition of figment
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
“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”
“Jung's implication here is clearly that one should try to forget that this is only a figment or fantasy, merely make-believe—or perhaps that one should forget the “only,” the “merely”—and indeed take the fantasy seriously as a reality.”
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noun
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A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
“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”
“Jung's implication here is clearly that one should try to forget that this is only a figment or fantasy, merely make-believe—or perhaps that one should forget the “only,” the “merely”—and indeed take the fantasy seriously as a reality.”
- (obsolete)An item which has been crafted.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Late Latin figmentum (“anything made, a fiction”), from fingō (“make, form, feign”); see fiction, feign, feint.
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