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figmentation en · NOUN

Etymology

From figment + -ation, or perhaps a confused blend of figment of the imagination.

Meanings

1. (nonstandard) A figment of the imagination; something imaginary.
   • The first two are so vivid that even at this date, over two years later, it is — and I write with frank candor — difficult, if not impossible, for me to discount or pass them from memory as a pure figmentation of the subconscious. 1968, John A. Sanford, Dreams; God's forgotten language, page 142:
   • […] magic, revelations, scrap heaps, anecdotes, untruths, revelations, hearsay, wild tales, yarns, and fish stories known as belief in the unseeable supernatural through faith without knowledge. These are all figmentations of the imagination. 2008, Austin P. Torney, Short Takes: The Stories of Austin P. Torney, page 234:
   • 'Freedom,' he had since that time realised is but a figmentation, a myth, a child of man's imaginative mind; a phenomenon which man can never hope to obtain in its totality due to the logical and illogical system […] 1992, Asenath Odaga, The Love Ash, Rosa and Other Stories, page 77:

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