Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something invented, made up, or fabricated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Something feigned or imagined; an invention; a fiction.
- noun In metaphysics, the opposite of a real thing; that the characters of which are arbitrary, depending on the thought of some particular person or persons.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
fabrication ,fantasy ,invention ; somethingfictitious .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a contrived or fantastic idea
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Cordoba House, which he called a figment of Gingrich's imagination, and the MSNBC host pointed out that the community center will be open to all New Yorkers.
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God, Jesus, Buddha, Allah or whatever you call the figment of your superstitious mind are nothing but frauds.
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A conclusion of rampant anti-Catholic bias in America, where the highest court in the land counts six Catholics among its nine members, could reasonably be described as a figment of somebody's over-hyped imagination.
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So elevation of either Pranab Mukherjee or AK Antony and their candidature can only be called figment of imagination.
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I do not mean that all who have written or spoken on the subject had this conception of it, but I believe they who thought truly meant this; they did not suppose that in imputing righteousness there was a kind of figment, a self-deception in the mind of God; they did not mean that by an act of will He chose to consider that every act which
Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series Frederick W. Robertson
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And she said no 'figment' because she could never imagine it happening
Word Magazine - Comments Slotbadger 2010
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Besides, as often remarked, it is a human figment which is not commanded, and is unnecessary and useless; for the holy
The Smalcald Articles Martin Luther 1514
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So its just a "figment" of our imagination that European settlers knowingly screwed indigenous people over.
Progressive Bloggers 2008
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"Facebook didn't exist—and wasn't even a figment of Mark's imagination—at the time this fraudulent contract and many of the bogus emails are dated," said Mr. Snyder.
Fight Over Facebook Origins Escalates Geoffrey A. Fowler 2011
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"The biased liberal media" is a figment of the imagination.
I'm 'saddened' by 'vicious attacks' on Palin, McCain says 2009
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