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   figment

   /ˈfɪɡm(ə)nt/

   noun

   • 1. a thing that someone believes to be real but that exists only in their imagination: "it really was Ross and not a figment of her overheated imagination"

   Word Origin late Middle English (denoting an invented statement or story): from Latin figmentum, related to fingere ‘form, contrive’. Compare with feign and fiction. The current sense dates from the early 17th century.

   Scrabble Points: 13

   • F

     4

   • I

     1

   • G

     2

   • M

     3

   • E

     1

   • N

     1

   • T

     1

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