figment

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Is this a dream and are you just a figment, albeit a kind figment - perhaps of too much Rhubarb pie - of my dream or vice-versa?

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  1. noun Something invented, made up, or fabricated: just a figment of the imagination.

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  • I should fear he might even stigmatise imagination as a figment, and delicacy as an affectation. —  Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle
  • A figment, a neurotic fear, a fat apartment manager in the wrong place at the wrong time. —  Asimov's SF, September 2006
  • He didn't know if the figment was capable of fulfilling such a threat, but he knew better than to put it to the test. —  TheMagazineofFantasyandScienceFiction,March2005
  • Is this a dream and are you just a figment, albeit a kind figment - perhaps of too much Rhubarb pie - of my dream or vice-versa? —  problemchildbride.com Blog
  • "18 To state this figment is enough. —  The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Latin figmentum, from fingere, to form; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Late Latin figmentum, anything made, a fiction, from fingere, make, form, feign: see fiction, feign.
 

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