From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfigmentfig‧ment /ˈfɪɡmənt/ noun → a figment of somebody’s imagination
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figment• Whether the circle of churches exists, or whether it is a figment of a map-maker's imagination remains to be seen.• True, the commercially successful electric car is still a figment.• No one ever turned up such a child, whose existence seems to have been yet another figment of fertile right-wing imaginations.• Suddenly, it seemed utterly unbelievable, a mere figment of her dreamlike state.• He was a ghost I carried around inside me, a prehistoric figment, a thing that was no longer real.Origin figment (1400-1500) Latin figmentum, from fingere; → FIGURE1 