0 something that seems real but is not: --
Was it just a figment of my imagination or did I hear John's voice in the other room?
They were left holding a national plan that was a pure figment of their imagination.
There is a natural principle that all men, and all nation states, are equal, and national preference is a figment of the nineteenth century!
After all, cross species infection is not a figment of science fiction imagination.
It is a figment of imagination, and that money will not immediately exist.
The bowler-hatted, striped-trousered, brolly-carrying, tea-drinking and red-tape-wrapping caricature of the civil servant is a figment of the cartoonists' vivid imagination.
That conjures up very pleasant pictures and figments of the imagination.
He thought that the real danger was that the shadow would be taken for the reality; that commercialism was a figment of the imagination.
Was it a figment of the naval correspondent's imagination?