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Another word for figment

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Noun

  1. An illusory mental image

    See also:

    real

  2. Any fictitious idea accepted as part of an ideology by an uncritical group; a received idea

      1. A traditional, typically ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a fundamental type in the worldview of a people, as by explaining aspects of the natural world or delineating the psychology, customs, or ideals of society:
      2. Such stories considered as a group:
      3. A popular belief or story that has become associated with a person, institution, or occurrence, especially one considered to illustrate a cultural ideal:
      1. The act or process of inventing:
      2. A new device, method, or process developed from study and experimentation:
      3. A mental fabrication, especially a falsehood.
      1. The category of literature, drama, film, or other creative work whose content is imagined and is not necessarily based on fact.
      2. Works in this category:
      3. A work within this category:
      1. The creative imagination; unrestrained fancy.
      2. Something, such as an invention, that is a creation of the fancy.
      3. A capricious or fantastic idea; a conceit.
      1. The act of creating.
      2. The fact or state of having been created.
      3. The act of investing with a new office or title.
    See also:

    real

    belief

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Another word for figment

Noun
  1. See also:

    lie

    fantasy

    fancy

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Sentence Examples

  • It insists that all thought is personal and purposive and that "pure"' thought is a figment.

  • SAD was once thought to be a figment of an individual's imagination but what research now tells us is that SAD is a real disorder that has an actual clinical diagnosis.

  • proper Iberian race, that the Basques were always shut in by alien races, that their affinity is still to seek, and that the whole Basque-Iberian theory is a figment.

  • figment of man 's imagination.

  • It is clear that in the original form of the tradition the name of the foundling was Scyld or Sceldwea, and that his cognomen'Scefing (derived from sceaf, a sheaf) was misinterpreted as a patronymic. Sceaf, therefore, is no genuine personage of tradition, but merely an etymological figment.

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