WordNet
imaginary being
n. a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction [syn: imaginary creature]
Usage examples of "imaginary being".
Oremland gave Miranda/Margaret one long, searching, horny look, sighed, checked his watch, and seemed to remember that she was an imaginary being.
The dictionary says a goblin is 'an imaginary being, a demon in some mythologies, grotesque, malevolent to man.
And in the soft electric daylight of the crowded store she suggested an imaginary being, an hallucination.
Man may have risen in the early days of Doggish culture as an imaginary being, a sort of racial god, on which the Dogs might call for help, to which they might retire for comfort.