figmentation

English

Etymology

figment +‎ -ation, or perhaps a confused blend of figment of the imagination.

Noun

figmentation (plural figmentations)

1. (nonstandard) A figment of the imagination; something imaginary.
   • 1968, John A. Sanford, Dreams; God's forgotten language, page 142:

     The first two are so vivid that even at this date, over two years later, it is — and I write with frank candor — difficult, if not impossible, for me to discount or pass them from memory as a pure figmentation of the subconscious.

   • 1992, Asenath Odaga, The Love Ash, Rosa and Other Stories, page 77:

     'Freedom,' he had since that time realised is but a figmentation, a myth, a child of man's imaginative mind; a phenomenon which man can never hope to obtain in its totality due to the logical and illogical system […]

   • 2008, Austin P. Torney, Short Takes: The Stories of Austin P. Torney, page 234:

     […] magic, revelations, scrap heaps, anecdotes, untruths, revelations, hearsay, wild tales, yarns, and fish stories known as belief in the unseeable supernatural through faith without knowledge. These are all figmentations of the imagination.