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Figment vs Undefined - What's the difference?

figment | undefined |

As a noun figment

is a fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.

As an adjective undefined is

lacking a definition or value.

figment

English

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.

    Usage notes

    * Often used in the form "a figment of [someone's] imagination".

    Related terms

    * feign * fiction * fictional * fictitious

    References

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    undefined

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia undefined) (-)
  • Lacking a definition or value.
  • (mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
    • The result of division by zero is undefined .

    Antonyms

    * defined