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myth
  1. A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc.
  2. (uncountable) Such stories as a genre.
  3. A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality.
  4. A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend
  5. A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “Giorgio's speculation that ancient aliens built the great pyramids has been thoroughly debunked as a myth.”
      “The movie is spun around a folk myth about a goddess of prosperity.”
      “But when we consider the status of women in academe, we may confront not so much a myth as a glass half empty or half full.”
mythology
  1. (countable and uncountable) The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.
  2. (countable and uncountable) A similar body of myths concerning an event, person or institution.
  3. (countable and uncountable) Pervasive elements of a fictional universe that resemble a mythological universe.
  4. (uncountable) The systematic collection and study of myths.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “There are ancient myths of creation and heroes that resemble those in Chinese mythology.”
      “Tobosaku is the bad guy in the Japanese mythology who stole not only one but three peaches out of Seibo's garden.”
      “Greek mythology contains theogonies, which are stories of the birth of the gods.”
mythicism
  1. (theology) the scholarly opinion that the gospels are mythologically expansions of historical data
  2. the habitual practice of attributing everything to mythological causes; superstition, the opposite of rationalism, or of realism
  3. the creative potential for the creation of mythology; the faculty of mythopoeia
  4. the view that a certain figure is unhistorical or mythical, chiefly in the context of pseudo-scholarship or conspiracy theories.
    1. (in particular) the opinion that Jesus of Nazareth did not exist in any way whatsoever
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Our traditions must be well disposed, that is able to stand back wisely from even the appearance of excessive mythicism in their own tradition.”
      “Flemming has in a way tarnished the image of mythicism by promoting bad arguments, and ironically will drive people away from mythicism.”
      “What the game has to offer that is unique is its use of Japanese mythicism and an overall great storyline.”
mythopoet
  1. (mythology) a writer of mythic poetry; a mythopoeic writer.
  2. A member of the mythopoetic men's movement.
mythomoteur
  1. The constitutive myth that gives an ethnic group its sense of purpose.
mythopoetics
mythographer
  1. one who studies or writes down myths and legends
  2. Examples:
    1. “And the task of the mythographer is to ask what interests are served by the naturalization of particular convictions and values.”
      “As a feminist, mythographer, etc, does she find the visual imagery rather, well, Freudian?”
      “He was a mythographer, ethnographer, and chronicler of major significance.”
mythography
  1. A depiction of a myth in literature or the arts.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In terms of art production, the period of mythography is characterized by a return to romantic pictorialism and by monumental propaganda.”
      “Even when focused on a single artist, his books don't engage in biography but rather mythography.”
      “Bresson reinforces the anachronism with some anomalous mythography.”
mythscape
  1. A landscape based on myth, or expressed in terms of myth.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Kosovo was at the centre of the Serbian mythscape but it was not, in ethnic terms, an unequivocally Serbian territory.”
      “Forlorn and diminishing, these pathetic gods still inhabit the American mythscape.”
mythicization
  1. conversion into a myth or legend
mythologue
mytheme
  1. The essential kernel of a myth.
mythonym
  1. An eponym originating in mythology.
mythoplasm
  1. the subject of a myth; the material covered in a given myth.
mythologisation
  1. Alternative form of mythologization
mythmaker
  1. A person who originates a myth.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The ancient epic is transformed by alchemist and mythmaker Kiefer into a composition of paint and lead.”
      “If he wants to continue serving as a planetary mythmaker, the studio's investment will have to be amply repaid.”
      “So to say that Paolini is an unskilled narrator and a derivative mythmaker is more or less beside the point.”
mythologizer
  1. One who, or that which, mythologizes.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The eldest Mitford sister, Nancy, became the family's first mythologizer, turning her anomalous relatives into fodder for her comic novels.”
      “Imagination has always been, and still is, in a narrower sense, the great mythologizer.”
      “His novels are unreadable, but he was the first great mythologizer of the frontier.”
mythicisation
  1. Alternative form of mythicization
mythologization
  1. The act or process of mythologizing.
mythologiser
  1. Alternative form of mythologizer
  2. Examples:
    1. “Painter of bush battlers and mythologiser of the small settler, he has long been one of Australia's most popular artists.”
mythization
  1. conversion into a myth
mythiciser
  1. Alternative form of mythicizer
mythologist
  1. A person who studies mythology
  2. Examples:
    1. “Doubts have been expressed by the German poet and mythologist, Karl Simrock, whether this was the primitive motive.”
      “It is for the mythologist to find out whether Homer had Korkyra in his eye when he described the mythic Scheri.”
      “The magnificence of Pelops imparts lustre even to the brilliant dreams of the mythologist.”
mythmaking
  1. The production or composing of myths.
  2. Examples:
    1. “But like all religious doctrine there is plenty of mythmaking and mysticism that goes with this.”
      “And yes, one has to be vigilant in the way that he suggested and try to spot falsehoods, examples of mythmaking in the stories that people tell about the world.”
      “Django, for example, rewrites history not with the brutal nihilism of Peckinpah's westerns but with his own brand of mythmaking.”
mythopoetry
mythicizer
  1. One who mythicizes.
mythologer
mythologian
mythification
  1. Conversion into a myth.
  2. Examples:
    1. “By his silence, and his refusal to mediate between his art and his audience, Greaves collaborates, unintentionally, in his mythification.”
      “Is this why you rail against the rampant mythification of Los Angeles, because it conceals so much of the actual living that's done there, the actual history it possesses?”
      “There's exaggeration and mythification here, not surprisingly.”
mythe
  1. Obsolete form of myth.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The Tewkesbury Residents' Association wants to see the mini-roundabout at the junction of Bredon Road, Mythe Road and High Street moved.”
      “In July the rivers Avon and Severn burst their banks and forced the evacuation of the company's Mythe Water treatment works near Tewkesbury.”
      “A four-man team of specialists has travelled to the flood-hit town after the Mythe plant was flooded, leaving thousands without running water.”
mythopoeia
  1. Creation of any myth.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He is the only one who relates mythopoeia to the dynamism of human imagination.”
      “A long phase of reverence for rationality subverted his original, spiritually frenetic passion for tragic mythopoeia.”
      “In the next four chapters, he attempts to uncover the mythopoeia.”
mythopoiesis
  1. (mythology) the creation of myth.
  2. Synonyms:
mythopoesis
  1. Creation of myth.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “You might as well forget or throw mythopoesis out of your reckoning of the originality and authority of artistry in Soyinka's poetry and drama.”
      “As such, they connect with a wider discourse, inherited from the Romantics but with origins in the ancient world, according to which nature is inextricable from mythopoesis.”
mythologisations
  1. plural of mythologisation
mythologizations
  1. plural of mythologization
mythicizations
  1. plural of mythicization
mythicisations
  1. plural of mythicisation
mythifications
  1. plural of mythification
mythopoieses
mythographers
  1. plural of mythographer
mythologisers
  1. plural of mythologiser
mythologizers
  1. plural of mythologizer
  2. Examples:
    1. “The effect has been to objectify these occupations and give short shrift to their mythologizers.”
      “Victor and Adrian are already defeated, but they function as mythologizers and this is a crucial role in the maintenance of a sustaining sense of Indian identity.”
      “The mythologizers of World War II not only have played down the sorry treatment of black troops but also have largely neglected to invite black combatants to the victory party.”
mythopoeses
mythologians
  1. plural of mythologian
mythomoteurs
  1. plural of mythomoteur
mythizations
  1. plural of mythization
mythologists
  1. plural of mythologist
  2. Examples:
    1. “Maybe western mythologists have not been completely correct in their perceptions of what these ancient people were telling us.”
      “Clytemnestra's avengers, the Erinyes, suffer a similar fate at the hands of male mythologists and Aeschylus.”
      “With such an androgyne element the sun was associated by ancient mythologists.”
mythographies
  1. plural of mythography
mythicizers
  1. plural of mythicizer
mythmakings
  1. plural of mythmaking
mythologers
  1. plural of mythologer
  2. Examples:
    1. “It is no wonder the protean character of the enlightener has perplexed mythologers, for he is a perpetual paradox.”
      “Joseph Campbell, who died only a few years ago, was one of our most celebrated and well-known contemporary mythologers.”
      “Today, it is pursued by artists, writers, urban theorists and mythologers and, on an academic level, geography researchers.”
mythologues
  1. plural of mythologue
mythopoeias
mythicisers
  1. plural of mythiciser
mythoplasms
  1. plural of mythoplasm
mythopoeics
  1. plural of mythopoeic
mythicisms
mythmakers
  1. plural of mythmaker
mythopoets
  1. plural of mythopoet
mythscapes
  1. plural of mythscape
mythologies
  1. plural of mythology
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I had spent most of my life convinced that she was no different than the finicky gods of Greek and Roman mythology and other ancient mythologies.”
      “A rich assortment awaits the kids with illustrated mythologies to the latest fun publications.”
      “The legend of the lost continent or island of Atlantis occurs in the mythologies of many parts of Europe.”
mythonyms
  1. plural of mythonym
mythemes
  1. plural of mytheme
mythes
  1. plural of mythe
myths
  1. plural of myth
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The origins of myths and legends are as varied as the immortal marvels they celebrate.”
      “In addition to the potential causes of acne, there are also many myths about what causes acne.”
      “When it comes to myths about Ragdoll Cats, ragdoll history is truly stranger than fiction.”
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