Figment Definition

fĭgmənt
figments
noun
Something merely imagined or made up in the mind.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Figment

Noun

Singular:
figment
Plural:
figments

Origin of Figment

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

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Latin figmentum from fingere to form dheigh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Figment Sentence Examples

  • Every universal would be a pure figment of the intellect.

  • It insists that all thought is personal and purposive and that "pure"' thought is a figment.

  • In the metaphysical state of mind, then, to retain our instance, political authority was based on the sovereignty of the people, and social facts were explained by the figment of a falling away from a state of nature.

  • It is clear that in the original form of the tradition the name of the foundling was Scyld or Sceldwea, and that his cognomen'Scefing (derived from sceaf, a sheaf) was misinterpreted as a patronymic. Sceaf, therefore, is no genuine personage of tradition, but merely an etymological figment.

  • It is false to suggest that sequence is a fact and causal connexion a figment; apart from causal connexion, there could be no consciousness of sequences.

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Words Starting With

FFIFIG

Words Ending With

TNTENT

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Words Starting With F and Ending With T

Starts With F & Ends With TStarts With FI & Ends With TStarts With F & Ends With NT

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With F7 Letter Words Ending With T