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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a contrived or fantastic idea;
- Example: "a figment of the imagination"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Figment \Fig"ment\, n. [L. figmentum, fr. fingere to form,
   shape, invent, feign. See Feign.]
   An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
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         Social figments, feints, and formalism.  --Mrs.
                                                  Browning.
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         It carried rather an appearance of figment and
         invention . . . than of truth and reality. --Woodward.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

figment
    n 1: a contrived or fantastic idea; "a figment of the
         imagination"