Figment vs Fragment - What's the difference?
figment | fragment |
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
* 1999 , Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener , page 12
* 2004 , Daniel C. Noel, In a Wayward Mood: Selected Writings 1969-2002 , page 256
A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
(grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
(computing)
As nouns the difference between figment and fragment
is that figment is a fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious while fragment is a part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.As a verb fragment is
to break apart.figment
English
Noun
(en noun)- He had not seen sarcomeres: these segments were a figment of his imagination.
- Perhaps, dear reader, you are only a figment in the dream of some god, as Sherlock Holmes was a figment in the mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Jung's implication here is clearly that one should try to forget that this is only a figment or fantasy, merely make-believe—or perhaps that one should forget the “only,” the “merely”—and indeed take the fantasy seriously as a reality.