FIGMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does figment mean? 

• FIGMENT (noun)
  The noun FIGMENT has 1 sense:

1. a contrived or fantastic idea

  Familiarity information: FIGMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIGMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A contrived or fantastic idea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

a figment of the imagination

Hypernyms ("figment" is a kind of...):

idea; thought (the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about)

 Context examples 

In a state between sleeping and waking, you noticed her entrance and her actions; but feverish, almost delirious as you were, you ascribed to her a goblin appearance different from her own: the long dishevelled hair, the swelled black face, the exaggerated stature, were figments of imagination; results of nightmare: the spiteful tearing of the veil was real: and it is like her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)