figment of imagination
- illusionMisleading sensory impression
- fantasyImaginative mental wandering
- daydreamConscious fantasy while awake
- mirageAtmospheric optical deception
- hallucinationPerception without external cause
delusion · chimera · phantom · specter · apparition · invention · fabrication · dream · vision · wishful · thinking · imaginary · unreal · make-believe · fiction · myth · ghost · shadow
reality versus fantasy
figment of imaginationreality
What actually exists
fact · actuality · truth · real thing · physical reality
evidential basis
figment of imaginationhard evidence
incontrovertible evidence · eyewitness account · empirical observation · matter of record