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figment

figment

33 6.4
Something made up in your mind that is not real
  • noun
  • /ˈfɪɡmənt/
translation icon : invento
  • Am I a figment of your imagination?
  • a figment of the imagination
  • just a figment
  • a figment of one's own

So I mean, sure, you could be a a figment of my imagination.

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Examples

  • Or is that just a figment of my imagination?

  • I am just a figment of your imagination.

  • So I mean, sure, you could be a a figment of my imagination.

  • Is that just a creative figment of our imagination?

  • Yes, you are in fact a figment of my imagination.

  • This is all a figment of your imagination!

  • Is this a figment of your imagination?

  • It was just a figment of my imagination.

  • Perhaps it had all been a dream, and their beautiful idyll was just a figment of her imagination.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • The ghost in the story turned out to be a figment of the author's imagination.

Synonyms

chimera
vsfigment
  • Literature
5 9.3

An imagined hope or plan that cannot be achieved

is a made up thing without implying impossibility or hope
phantasm
vsfigment
  • Literature
4 9.9

A thing that seems real but is only in the mind, like a ghost

is an invented idea rather than an apparent unreal sight
fantasm
vsfigment
  • Archaic
9.9

An image you see in your mind that is not real

is an invented idea rather than a sensory apparition

Antonyms

1.0

Something that can be shown to be true, not an opinion

1.4

The way things really are, not how we imagine or wish

How Real

apparition
  • Literature
19 8.9
illusion
319 4.6
vision
848 3.8
fantasm
  • Archaic
9.9
figment
33 6.4

Surface Forms

figment singular
figments plural

Etymology

Figment comes from the old Latin root fingere, which means 'to shape' or 'to make'. It is the same root as fiction, so a figment is something 'shaped' by the imagination — a made-up or unreal thing.