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Figment (disambiguation)
(figments)
If you say that something is a figment of someone's imagination, you mean that it does not really exist and that they are just imagining it.
The attack wasn't just a figment of my imagination.
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figment         
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Figment (disambiguation)
n.
Invention, fiction, fabrication, fable.
figment         
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Figment (disambiguation)
['f?gm(?)nt]
¦ noun a thing believed to be real but existing only in the imagination.
Origin
ME (denoting an invented statement): from L. figmentum, related to fingere 'form, contrive'; cf. feign and fiction.

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Figment
Examples of use of figment
1. In Madhoshi, he was just a figment of her imagination.
2. Yet it is impossible to dismiss the programme as a figment of fantasy.
3. The number of Holocaust deaths is not a figment of the imagination.
4. So is the central bank‘s loss only a figment on paper?
5. But don‘t think that the spike in oil is a speculative figment.