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The definition of a figment is something imagined.

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When you believe that a monster lives under your bed and there is no monster living there, the monster is an example of a figment of your imagination.

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noun

something merely imagined or made up in the mind

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

See figment in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Something invented, made up, or fabricated: just a figment of the imagination.

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Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Latin figmentum

Origin: , from fingere, to form; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots

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