figment

noun /ˈfɪɡ.mənt/

1. A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.

   a figment of one's imagination

2. An item which has been crafted.

   obsolete

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry figment (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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