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fig·ment (fig′mənt)

noun

something merely imagined or made up in the mind

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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