figment

fig·ment (fig′mənt)

noun

something merely imagined or made up in the mind

Etymology: ME < L figmentum < fingere, to form: see dough

Preposition: of

imagination: The idea of imminent war is a figment of the media imagination.
someone: Everything else is literally a figment of someone 's imagination.
people: The truth is that Baal was just a figment of people 's imaginations.
somebody: This isn't a figment of somebody 's imagination.
author: The names of the main characters, places and events are not figments of the authors ' imaginations.
man: There is no God except in the figment of man 's imagination.

Adjective modifier

mere: Turn to God, he said, you have no god but Him the rest are mere figments of your imagination.
pure: Every universal would be a pure figment of the intellect.
such: All such figments offer the same problems of falsification.

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