Figment
noun
noun ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
"a figment of one's imagination"
- 2 a contrived or fantastic idea wordnet
- 3 An item which has been crafted. obsolete
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
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.