Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Figment

Figment , noun

[Latin figmentum, from 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