different between mythicize vs myth
mythicize
English
Etymology
mythic +? -ize
Pronunciation
- enPR: m?th'?s?z, IPA(key): /?m????sa?z/
Verb
mythicize (third-person singular simple present mythicizes, present participle mythicizing, simple past and past participle mythicized)
- (transitive) To make into a myth.
- (transitive) To interpret in terms of mythology.
Synonyms
- mythify
Translations
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myth
English
Alternative forms
- mythe (rare or archaic)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (mûthos, “word, humour, companion, speech, account, rumour, fable”). Attested in English since 1830. Doublet of mythos.
Pronunciation
- enPR: m?th, IPA(key): /m??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
myth (plural myths)
- 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.
- (uncountable) Such stories as a genre.
- Myth was the product of man's emotion and imagination, acted upon by his surroundings. (E. Clodd, Myths & Dreams (1885), 7, cited after OED)
- 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.
- Synonym: misconception
- Scientists debunk the myth that gum stays in the human stomach for seven years.
- A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend
- Father Flanagan was legendary, his institution an American myth. (Tucson (Arizona) Citizen, 20 September 1979, 5A/3, cited after OED)
- A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
- 1849, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Caxtons
- As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths these twenty years.
- 1849, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Caxtons
- An invented story, theory, or concept.
- His story is a pure myth.
Related terms
Translations
See also
- legend
Further reading
- myth in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- myth in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- "myth" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 210.
Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /m???/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /mi??/
Noun
myth
- Nasal mutation of byth.
Mutation
myth From the web:
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