something that somebody has imagined and that does not really exist 凭空想象的事物;臆造的东西;虚构的事 Are you telling me that these symptoms are just a figment of my imagination? 你是在告诉我这些症状只是我想象中的虚构吗? Maybe all happiness is a figment too. 也许所有的幸福也是虚构的。
Word Originlate 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 cent.