different between figment vs vagary
figment
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)
- 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.
- 1989 (Sep 30), R. McNeill Alexander, "Biomechanics in the days before Newton", New Scientist volume 123, No. 1684, page 59
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.
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vagary
English
Etymology
From Latin vagus (“wandering”).
Pronunciation
- (General American, formerly) IPA(key): /v?????i/
- (General American, now commonly) IPA(key): /?ve????i/
Noun
vagary (plural vagaries)
- An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action.
- 1871, Charles Kingsley, At Last: A Christmas In The West Indies, ch. 8:
- It now turns out that the Pitch Lake, like most other things, owes its appearance on the surface to no convulsion or vagary at all, but to a most slow, orderly, and respectable process of nature, by which buried vegetable matter, which would have become peat, and finally brown coal, in a temperate climate, becomes, under the hot tropic soil, asphalt and oil.
- 1871, Charles Kingsley, At Last: A Christmas In The West Indies, ch. 8:
- An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:whim
- 1905, Jack London, War of the Classes, Preface:
- And then came the day when my socialism grew respectable,—still a vagary of youth, it was held, but romantically respectable.
Derived terms
- vagarity
- vagarious
Related terms
- vague
- vagrant
- vagabond
Translations
See also
- vaguery
Anagrams
- Varyag
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