D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Figment

/fĭg'-mĭnt/ · Fig·ment · IPA /ˈfɪɡ.mənt/
01 n. An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
  1. 1.
    An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
    “Social figments, feints, and formalism.” Mrs. Browning.
    “It carried rather an appearance of figment and invention . . . than of truth and reality.” Woodward.