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a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality
- unable to find any tracks in the snow the next morning, I was forced to conclude that the shadowy figure had been a figment of my imagination
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something that is the product of the imagination
- thus far, the invisible human being has been nothing more than a figment of fantasy writers
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Figment: You Can't Make This Up!
Figment: You Can't Make This Up!
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The first known use of figment was in the 15th century
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