Figment

"Figment" in a Sentence (14 examples)

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

What he saw wasn't a ghost but just a figment of his imagination.

He is a figment as much as a figure.

This is a mere figment of your imagination.

I'm just a figment of your imagination.

Artists are but a figment of the imagination.

This is a figment of Tom's perverted fantasy.

Robert was just a figment of Sandra's imagination.

It's just a figment of your imagination.

The Internet is a figment of your imagination.

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a figment of one's imagination

He had not seen sarcomeres: these segments were a figment of his imagination.

Perhaps, dear reader, you are only a figment in the dream of some god, as Sherlock Holmes was a figment in the mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Jung's implication here is clearly that one should try to forget that this is only a figment or fantasy, merely make-believe—or perhaps that one should forget the “only,” the “merely”—and indeed take the fantasy seriously as a reality.

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