different between mythopoetic vs mythopoeticize

English

Etymology

From mytho- +? poetic; since 1880.

Pronunciation

Adjective

mythopoetic (comparative more mythopoetic, superlative most mythopoetic)

1. Giving rise to myths; pertaining to the creation of myth.
2. Being a creative interpretation.
3. (mythology) Given the quality of a myth or a poem, used typically in opposition to a purely factual account.

Quotations

• Darren Staloff's lecture Search for a Meaningful Past: Philosophies, Theories and Interpretations of Human History

  "An example of the former, of the mythopoetic history, may be Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche, or Ecce Homo his own mythopoetic autobiography." [1]

• 2000 C A Bowers, Let Them Eat Data[2]

  "To paraphrase Kelly (1994), we should not be surprised that Nature, having subjugated the bulk of inert matter on Earth, would go on to subjugate the mythopoetic narratives that are the basis of the moral codes that constitute this still culturally diverse world."

Synonyms

• mythopoeic
• mythopoetical

English

Etymology

mythopoetic +? -ize

Verb

mythopoeticize (third-person singular simple present mythopoeticizes, present participle mythopoeticizing, simple past and past participle mythopoeticized)

1. (transitive) To make mythopoetic; to express in mythic poetry.