Figment

Noun

 * 1) A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
 * 2) * 1989 (Sep 30), R. McNeill Alexander, "Biomechanics in the days before Newton", New Scientist volume 123, No. 1684, page 59
 * He had not seen sarcomeres: these segments were a figment of his imagination.
 * 1) * 1999, Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener, page 12
 * 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
 * 1) * 2004, Daniel C. Noel, In a Wayward Mood: Selected Writings 1969-2002, page 256
 * 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.

Synonyms for Figment
fiction, fantasy, falsehood, invention, fabrication, imagination.

Antonyms for Figment
fact, reality, truth.

Related terms

 * feign
 * fiction
 * fictional
 * fictitious

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From figmentum: < fingo:; see fiction, feign.

Translations

 * Armenian: ֆիկցիա
 * French:, , , vue de l'esprit, déconnage (colloquial), , , , , rêvasserie, ,


 * German: Hirngespinst, Fantasieprodukt,
 * Russian: выдумка, вымысел,, , фикция
 * Spanish:, , ,