different between fabrication vs figment

English

Etymology

From Middle French fabrication, from Latin fabricatio

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /fæb???ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

fabrication (countable and uncountable, plural fabrications)

1. (uncountable) The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture

   the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government

2. (countable) That which is fabricated; a falsehood

   The story is doubtless a fabrication.

3. (cooking) The act of cutting up an animal carcass as preparation for cooking; butchery.

Related terms

• fabricate
• fabricating
• fabric

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.b?i.ka.sj??/

Noun

fabrication f (plural fabrications)

1. manufacture, manufacturing
2. fabrication
3. production

English

Etymology

From Late Latin figmentum (“anything made, a fiction”), from fing? (“make, form, feign”); see fiction, feign.

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /?f??.m?nt/
• (US)
• (General Australian)

Noun

figment (plural figments)

1. A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
   • 1989 (Sep 30), R. McNeill Alexander, "Biomechanics in the days before Newton", New Scientist volume 123, No. 1684, page 59

     He had not seen sarcomeres: these segments were a figment of his imagination.

Usage notes

• Often used in the form "a figment of one's imagination".

Related terms

• feign
• fiction
• fictional
• fictitious

Translations

References

• figment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• figment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.