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figment

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of figment

1 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
Synonyms of figment

chimera, conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), hallucination, illusion, nonentity, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream, unreality, vision
Words Related to figment

ignis fatuus, mirage, will-o'-the-wisp

brainchild, idea

concoction, fable, fabrication, fiction, invention

envisaging, imaging, visualization

cloud-cuckoo-land, cloudland, Shangri-la, utopia

daymare, nightmare
Phrases Synonymous with figment

castle in Spain, castle in the air
Near Antonyms of figment

actuality, fact, reality

2 something that is the product of the imagination

  • thus far, the invisible human being has been nothing more than a figment of fantasy writers
Synonyms of figment

fable, fabrication, fantasy (also phantasy), fiction, invention
Words Related to figment

anecdote, narrative, novel, story, tale, yarn

fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, untruth, whopper

make-believe
Near Antonyms of figment

actuality, realness
Antonyms of figment

fact, materiality, reality

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