noun ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.

   "a figment of one's imagination"

2. 2
   a contrived or fantastic idea wordnet
3. 3
   An item which has been crafted. obsolete

Synonyms

All synonyms

apparitionbrainchildbubblecanardchimeraconcoction

Example

More examples

"There really was an Alice, but Wonderland is a figment of the imagination."

Etymology

From Late Latin figmentum (“anything made, a fiction”), from fingō (“make, form, feign”); see fiction, feign.

Related phrases

imagination ideaimagination pieceof imaginationpart imagination

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