[ˈfɪɡm(ə)nt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a thing that someone believes to be real but that exists only in their imagination
(e.g: it really was Ross and not a figment of her overheated imagination)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (denoting an invented statement or story): from Latin figmentum, related to fingere ‘form, contrive’. Compare with feign and fiction. The current sense dates from the early 17th century