figment Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a contrived or fantastic idea
    • a figment of the imagination

WordNet

Fig"ment noun
Etymology
L. figmentum, fr. fingere to form, shape, invent, feign. See Feign.
Definitions
  1. An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
    Social figments, feints, and formalism. Mrs. Browning.
    It carried rather an appearance of figment and invention . . . than of truth and reality. Woodward.

Webster 1913