(n.) An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can imagine how frustrating this is for teenagers like myself who make a point of being politically engaged, only to find that our interest is seen as a figment of someone’s imagination.
(2) With no Hull player, let alone the official body that monitors the suspension bridge, remotely aware of such an incident, The Observer put it to Brown that the apparently suicidal female was a figment of his imagination.
(3) Any shift the public may detect in immigration proposals advanced by Donald Trump is a figment of the imagination, top Trump surrogates said in a coordinated maneuver on Sunday.
(4) He wanted so much to convince his mates that he really had spied a miracle and to make sure that his normally placid mind had not fallen victim of some strange figment of the imagination, a confidence trick, a sudden mirage brought on by the unrelenting rays of the sun.'
(5) Earlier, on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, John Redwood, the former cabinet minister, described claims by Ukip donor Stuart Wheeler that up to eight Tories were about to defect as "a figment of Ukip's imagination", as party chiefs sought to calm the party's nerves.
(6) Show us another player who has radiated as much influence as Eric Cantona and we will show you a figment of your imagination.
(7) Many tabloid newspapers have joined in, giving the impression that rape is simply a figment of mad women's imaginations.
(8) It makes this image even more of a figment of my imagination.
(9) The lengthy scenes of flatly described sex, commonly with two women at once, read like pornographic figments.
(10) Redwood dismissed the possibility of eight defectors when he told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4: "The so-called eight are a figment of Ukip's imagination.
(11) Yes, although in this case, I’ve made clever use of ambiguity, because “selfie teeth” are often a figment of your imagination.
(12) But he described the idea of welfare tourism as a "figment of some politician's imagination" because Poles in Britain worked and sent back earnings that have been taxed.
(13) March of the makers remains a figment of Osborne's imagination Read more “A lot of this is driven by the ongoing weakness of global commodity prices.
(14) A claim by Ukip that eight more MPs are thinking of defecting to the party has been dismissed as a figment of the party's imagination by John Redwood, a former Tory cabinet minister and leading Eurosceptic.
(15) Figments of imagination and previous experiences enter into each clinic room emotional situation, and the apprehensions of the child, the parent and the doctor must be anticipated and acknowledged.
(16) Such an investigation would indeed be odious, but it's a figment of Boal's imagination.
(17) It can no longer be rubbished as some spurious subjective figment of the victim’s “paranoid” imagination, which sadly is an attitude that extends far beyond actual abusers.
(18) We aim this useful figment at an (equally hypothetical) photosynthetic system all of whose units are set up to perform the same primary reaction.
(19) She is an outsider, a "difficult" woman whose old comrades from the communist party still smart from her brisk re-evaluation of the movement as a figment of their own "mass psychopathology".
(20) As for the march of the makers, that remains a figment of the chancellor’s imagination.
Hallucination
Definition:
(n.) The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.
(n.) The perception of objects which have no reality, or of sensations which have no corresponding external cause, arising from disorder or the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; delusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The clinical picture was characterized by hallucinations and delirium.
(2) Adverse effects included nausea, light-headedness, dyskinesias, and hallucinations, all of which abated after the Sinemet dose was reduced.
(3) Cocaine produces simple hallucinations, PCP can produce complex hallucinations analogous to a paranoid psychosis, while LSD produces a combination of hallucinations, pseudohallucinations and illusions.
(4) In traditional Western psychiatric theory, seeing or hearing things that other people do not think are there could be termed a hallucination which is often considered indicative of underlying psychopathology.
(5) The observed psychiatric symptoms were classified into two categories: simple, including incidents of confusion alone or hallucinations with preserved insight, and complex, including delusions or chronic confusion without preserved insight.
(6) The probability of hallucinations was associated with the severity of cognitive dysfunction, the degree of other behavioral disturbances, and the presence of extrapyramidal signs.
(7) This was generally mild and always fully reversible and consisted mainly of forgetfulness, occasionally hallucinations, nightmares and somnolence.
(8) Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder characterized by onset in young adulthood, the occurrence of hallucinations and delusions, and the development of enduring psychosocial disability.
(9) Improved assessments of hallucinating patients are recommended, with exploration of subtleties in the hallucinatory experience; and factors needing assessment are identified.
(10) Within the primitive maternal transference, borborygmi are often accompaniments to the fantasy or the hallucination of being fed by the analyst.
(11) These data indicate that hallucinations (i.e., believed-in imaginings) can be elicited from a minority of "norman" subjects with brief instructions.
(12) Intravenous injection of naloxone (in most cases 4.0 mg) induced a reduction of psychotic symptomatology (especially hallucinations) in the majority of patients.
(13) Is voice search really going to catch on, or is it some sort of consensual hallucination by the tech industry?
(14) Hallucinations of ocular origin, however, are easily diagnosed by a thorough eye examination.
(15) The clinical picture is near-monthly recurrence of episodes of stupor or excitement lasting about 1 or 2 weeks, which are accompanied by delusion and in some cases also by hallucinations or confusion.
(16) A case study is presented of the effects of wearing an ear-plug in a single patient with persistent auditory hallucinations.
(17) Following the presentation of this underdiagnosed clinical phenomenon we propose that musical hallucinations should be addressed as a final outcome of several factors including both mental and physical components.
(18) Social isolation did not affect the incidence of hallucination, nor was it related to the incidence of known depressive illness.
(19) The results indicate fair concordance between the two clinical approaches and the DIS with regard to the presence of any delusional or hallucination symptoms.
(20) Moreau de Tours's classical studies about haschisch had pointed out to a rich symptomatology: visual and auditive hallucinations preceded by the "primordial effect": "the dissociation of ideas".