See figment in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
An illusory mental image:
daydream, dream, fancy, fantasy, fiction, illusion, phantasm, phantasma, reverie, vision. See realAny fictitious idea accepted as part of an ideology by an uncritical group; a received idea:
creation, fantasy, fiction, invention, myth. See belief, real
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