figment

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Late Latin figmentum (“anything made, a fiction”), from fingō (“make, form, feign”); see fiction, feign, feint.

Certainly, too, these dwarfs were not figments of his imagination. — Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930, Various
She is, in fact, only the figment of an over-teeming brain. — Unnatural death, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh) Sayers
She hoped that it might be but the figment of an overwrought imagination. — Thuvia, maid of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs

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