Noun

(en noun)

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.

* 1999 , Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener , page 12

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

* 2004 , Daniel C. Noel, In a Wayward Mood: Selected Writings 1969-2002 , page 256

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.

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) A caper, a frolic; merriment.

Noun

(en noun)

A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream.

* 1847 , Alfred Tennyson, The Princess , Canto VII, lines 107-108

we sat / But spoke not, rapt in nameless reverie ,

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An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.

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If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool; there are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both.