Figment
Pronunciation : Fig"ment
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [L. figmentum, fr. fingere to form, shape, invent, feign. See Feign.]
Definition : Defn: 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913