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figment

  • /ˈfɪɡ.mənt/ US, UK

Rhymes with -ɪɡmənt

Where it comes from

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

noun figments

  1. A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious. a figment of one's imagination
  2. obsolete An item which has been crafted.

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