Figment

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Figment \Fig"ment\, n. [L. figmentum, fr. fingere to form,
     shape, invent, feign. See {Feign}.]
     An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
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           Social figments, feints, and formalism.  --Mrs.


                                                    Browning.
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           It carried rather an appearance of figment and
           invention . . . than of truth and reality. --Woodward.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  figment
       n : a contrived or fantastic idea; "a figment of the
           imagination"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "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