Figment

Definitions

1. A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
2. An item which has been crafted.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“a figment of one's imagination”

“He had not seen sarcomeres: these segments were a figment of his imagination.”

“Perhaps, dear reader, you are only a figment in the dream⟳ of some god, as Sherlock Holmes was a figment in the mind⟳ of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle”

“Jung's implication here is clearly that one should try⟳ to forget⟳ that this is only a figment or fantasy, merely make-believe—or perhaps that one should forget⟳ the “only,” the “merely”—and indeed take⟳ the fantasy seriously as a reality.”

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