Meaning

2 senses
  1. A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.

    a figment of one's imagination

    Hirngespinst, Fantasieprodukt, Erfindung

    вы́думкаvýdumka, вы́мыселvýmysel, до́мыселdómysel

  2. (obsolete)An item which has been crafted.

More definitions
  • a contrived or fantastic idea

Examples

12 sentences
  1. They're all figments of your imagination.

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  2. I'm just a figment of your imagination.

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  3. It's just a figment of your imagination.

    ruЭто лишь плод твоего воображения.

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  4. This is a mere figment of your imagination.

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  5. Artists are but a figment of the imagination.

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
fabrication, fantasy, invention:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
fabrication, fantasy, invention:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: figments
Singularfigment
Pluralfigments

regular

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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