Figment

noun

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

Etymology

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

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