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Word: Figment
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late Middle English (denoting an invented statement or story): from Latin figmentum, related to fingere ‘form, contrive’. Compare with feign and fiction. The current sense dates from the early 17th century
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈfɪɡm(ə)nt
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a thing that someone believes to be real but that exists only in their imagination
Short Definition:thing that someone believes to be real but that exists only in their imagination
Examples:- it really was Ross and not a figment of her overheated imagination
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