figment
noun
Origin of figment
Synonyms for figment
Related Words for figment
daydream, fiction, falsehood, lie, bubble, nightmare, fancy, fabrication, fantasy, invention, chimera, fable, improvisation, dream, illusion, productionExamples from the Web for figment
Contemporary Examples of figment
But it turns out The Furies of Maidan is not a figment of his imagination.
Equally divided consensus says: a figment of her imagination, or Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr.
Despite aural evidence to the contrary, Mr. Bhatt, however, insisted the noise was a figment of my imagination.
Historical Examples of figment
There is no permanent wise man except in the figment of the Stoics.
Essays, First SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
The starting-point, the nebula, is no figment of the scientific imagination.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4)J. Arthur Thomson
Maybe all this about being an FBI agent was just a figment of his imagination.
Out Like a LightGordon Randall Garrett
Or is God but a phantom, and the Eternal Law but a figment of the imagination?
No Compromise with SlaveryWilliam Lloyd Garrison
The element of time is only a figment that clouds the question of right and deceives the borrower.
UsuryCalvin Elliott