Figment \Fig"ment\, n. [L. figmentum, fr. fingere to form, shape, invent, feign. See Feign.]

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 Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)