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English Dictionary: figment by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
figment
n
  1. a contrived or fantastic idea; "a figment of the imagination"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Figment \Fig"ment\, n. [L. figmentum, fr. fingere to form,
      shape, invent, feign. See {Feign}.]
      An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
  
               Social figments, feints, and formalism.   --Mrs.
                                                                              Browning.
  
               It carried rather an appearance of figment and
               invention . . . than of truth and reality. --Woodward.
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