Definitions for: Figment

[n] a contrived or fantastic idea; "a figment of the imagination"

Webster (1913) Definition: Fig"ment, n. [L. figmentum, fr. fingere to form,
shape, invent, feign. See Feign.]
An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.

Social figments, feints, and formalism. --Mrs.
Browning.

It carried rather an appearance of figment and
invention . . . than of truth and reality. --Woodward.

See Also: idea, thought