| 单词 | a figment of imagination |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa figment of (the or one's) imagination b. Something which exists only as an arbitrarily framed notion of the mind. a figment of (the or one's) imagination. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > faint, imperfect idea > [noun] > unfounded fancy1471 idea1593 conception1614 figment1624 hypothesis1625 notional1653 unding1932 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun] > imaginary form, fiction fantasy1362 figurec1384 feigning1388 idol1577 idea1593 nonentity1604 figment1624 spectre1708 1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 33 We have..great reason to reject it, as a figment of mans braine. 1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 71 in Scepsis Scientifica Therefore [space] has a kind of being, that is no arbitrary figment. 1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §335 Beauty, virtue, and such like are not figments of the mind. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. x. 277 The long dishevelled hair, the swelled black face, the exaggerated stature, were figments of imagination. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 651 We must not conceive that this logical figment had ever a real existence. 1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant ii. xii. 484 A self-conscious being..existing alone in an unconscious world, is a figment of abstraction. 1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Mar. 79/1 This condition is almost certainly a figment of the imagination. 1971 Nature 2 Apr. 299/3 Another attempt..to read into prehistoric monuments..patterns and explanations which are simply figments of the observer's imagination. < as lemmas |
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