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figment

noun
/ˈfɪɡ.mənt/US

Etymology

From Late Latin figmentum (“anything made, a fiction”), from fingō (“make, form, feign”); see fiction, feign, feint.

  1. derived from figmentum

Definitions

  1. A fabrication, fantasy, invention

    A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.

    • a figment of one's imagination
    • He had not seen sarcomeres: these segments were a figment of his imagination.
    • 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

  2. An item which has been crafted.

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Derived

figmentation

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for figment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA