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mythology
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)
- (countable and uncountable) The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.
- (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.
- 2003, Peter Utgaard, Remembering & Forgetting Nazism: Education, National Identity, and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria, Berghahn Books, ?ISBN, page x:
- (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.
- 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:
- (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
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philosophy
English
Alternative forms
- philosophie (obsolete)
- phylosophie (obsolete)
- phylosophy (nonstandard)
Etymology
From Middle English philosophie, Old French philosophie, and their source, Latin philosophia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (philosophía), from ????? (phílos, “loving”) + ????? (sophía, “wisdom”). Synchronically, philo- +? -sophy. Displaced native Old English ?þwitegung.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /f??l?s?fi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /f??l?s?fi/
Noun
philosophy (countable and uncountable, plural philosophies)
- (uncountable, originally) The love of wisdom.
- (uncountable) An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism.
- 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
- 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- (countable) A comprehensive system of belief.
- (countable) A view or outlook regarding fundamental principles underlying some domain.
- (countable) A general principle (usually moral).
- (archaic) A broader branch of (non-applied) science.
- A calm and thoughtful demeanor; calmness of temper.
- (printing, dated) Synonym of small pica (especially in French printing).
- 2010, Thomas Wharton, Salamander, Emblem Editions (?ISBN)
- Although I prefer small pica. Or as its[sic] sometimes known, philosophy.
- – Small pica, or philosophy, she said. It sounds like the title of a novel. With a girl heroine.
- 2010, Thomas Wharton, Salamander, Emblem Editions (?ISBN)
Meronyms
- See also Thesaurus:philosophy
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
philosophy (third-person singular simple present philosophies, present participle philosophying, simple past and past participle philosophied)
- (now rare) To philosophize.
See also
- Appendix:Glossary of philosophical isms
- ideology
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “philosophy”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- “philosophy” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Further reading
- "philosophy" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 235.
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