1. things that exist only in the imagination; inventions of the mind
Usage: plural of figment

Examples

• The monsters under his bed were just figments of his imagination.
• Her fears about the presentation turned out to be figments of her anxious mind.
• The conspiracy theories were nothing more than figments created by paranoid thinking.
• As a child, she had many imaginary friends who were figments of her creative spirit.
• The supposed evidence was revealed to be figments manufactured by unreliable witnesses.
• His memories of the event were so distorted they seemed like figments rather than facts.