different between mythology vs paranormal

English

Etymology

First attested as Middle English [Term?] in 1412. From Middle French mythologie, from Latin mythologia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (muthología, “legend”) ????????? (muthologé?, “I tell tales”), from ????????? (muthológos, “legend”), from ????? (mûthos, “story”) + ???? (lég?, “I say”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: m?thôlôj?, IPA^(key): /m????l?d?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m????l?d?i/
• Rhymes: -?l?d?i

Noun

mythology (countable and uncountable, plural mythologies)

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.
   • 2003, Peter Utgaard, Remembering & Forgetting Nazism: Education, National Identity, and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria, Berghahn Books, ?ISBN, page x:

     This program to distinguish Austria from Germany was important to building a new Austria, but it also indirectly contributed to victim mythology by implying that participation in the Nazi war of conquest was antithetical to Austrian identity.

3. (countable and uncountable) Pervasive elements of a fictional universe that resemble a mythological universe.
   • 2000 April 28, Caryn James (?), As Scheherazade Was Saying . . ., in The New York Times, page E31, reproduced in The New York Times Television Reviews 2000, Routledge (2001), ?ISBN, page 198:

     This tongue-in-cheek episode is especially fun for people who don’t take their “X-Files” mythology seriously.

4. (uncountable) The systematic collection and study of myths.

Synonyms

• godlore

Derived terms

• mythological
• mythologist

Translations

See also

• Christian mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Egyptian mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Greek mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Japanese mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Norse mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Roman mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Indian mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

para- (“above, beyond; abnormal”) +? normal; compare supernatural.

Adjective

paranormal (comparative more paranormal, superlative most paranormal)

1. That (ostensibly) cannot be explained by what scientists know; supernatural; especially of or pertaining to ghosts, spirits, and hypothesized abilities like telepathy.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

paranormal (plural paranormals)

1. A person to whom paranormal powers are attributed.
2. (with "the") Paranormal phenomena collectively, or as a field of study.

Catalan

Etymology

para- +? normal

Adjective

paranormal (masculine and feminine plural paranormals)

1. paranormal

Further reading

• “paranormal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “paranormal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “paranormal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

French

Etymology

para- +? normal

Adjective

paranormal (feminine singular paranormale, masculine plural paranormaux, feminine plural paranormales)

1. paranormal

Further reading

• “paranormal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?an???ma?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

paranormal (not comparable)

1. paranormal

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

para- +? normal

Adjective

paranormal m or f (plural paranormais, comparable)

1. paranormal

Derived terms

• paranormalmente

Further reading

• “paranormal” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French paranormal

Adjective

paranormal m or n (feminine singular paranormal?, masculine plural paranormali, feminine and neuter plural paranormale)

1. paranormal

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From para- +? normal.

Adjective

paranormal (plural paranormales)

1. paranormal

Further reading

• “paranormal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Adjective

paranormal (not comparable)

1. paranormal

Declension

Further reading

• paranormal in Svensk ordbok.