Associations to the word «Figuration»

Wiktionary

FIGURATION, noun. The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.
FIGURATION, noun. Mixture of concords and discords.

Dictionary definition

FIGURATION, noun. Representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory.
FIGURATION, noun. Decorating with a design.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky