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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
figment
    n 1: a contrived or fantastic idea; "a figment of the
         imagination"
2. 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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Thesaurus Results for figment:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
apparition, brainchild, bubble, canard, chimera, concoction, creation, daydream, delirium, dream, eidolon, extravaganza, fable, fabrication, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fiction, forgery, hallucination, idle fancy, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, insubstantial image, invention, maggot, make-believe, myth, nightmare, phantasm, phantom, romance, sick fancy, thick-coming fancies, trip, vapor, vision, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams
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