figmentnoun
uk/ˈfɪɡ.mənt/us/ˈfɪɡ.mənt/a figment of sb's imagination
something that seems real but is not:
Was it just a figment of my imagination or did I hear John's voice in the other room?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unreal things and unreality
- cloud cuckoo land
- delusion
- delusional
- dummy
- escapism
- false hopes
- falsity
- fantasy
- fictionalize
- flight of fancy idiom
- illusion
- la-la land
- make-believe
- never-never land
- phantasm
- pie
- pie in the sky idiom
- pious
- unreal
- untruth
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