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figment

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++fig·ment /ˈfɪɡmənt/ noun  a figment of somebody’s imagination IMAGINEsomething that you imagine is real, but does not exist 某人凭空想象的事物,某人虚构的事物
Examples from the Corpus
figmentWhether the circle of churches exists, or whether it is a figment of a map-maker's imagination remains to be seen.True, the commercially successful electric car is still a figment.No one ever turned up such a child, whose existence seems to have been yet another figment of fertile right-wing imaginations.Suddenly, it seemed utterly unbelievable, a mere figment of her dreamlike state.He was a ghost I carried around inside me, a prehistoric figment, a thing that was no longer real.
Origin figment (1400-1500) Latin figmentum, from fingere; → FIGURE1
fig·ment nounChineseSyllable
that Corpus you exist but is real, not does something imagine


figment
figment /ˈfɪɡmənt/ noun
 Date: 1400-1500
 Language: Latin
 Origin: figmentum, from fingere; figure1
a figment of sb’s imagination something that you imagine is real, but does not exist


fig·mentBrE /ˈfɪɡmənt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈfɪɡmənt/ 🔊 nouna figment of sb's imagiˈnationsomething that sb has imagined and that does not really exist 凭空想象的事物;臆造的东西;虚构的事