Figment
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- A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
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Etymology
From Late Latin figmentum (“anything made, a fiction”), from fingō (“make, form, feign”); see fiction, feign.
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Usage notes
- Often used in the form "a figment of [someone's] imagination".
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