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Meaning of Figment | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈfɪɡ.mənt

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.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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