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(Greek mythology) An origin story or myth in Ancient Greece.
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Alternative spelling of alchemist [One who practices alchemy.]
adj
of, or relating to allegory
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A form of sacred biography in which a deity's attributes are listed, in the form of poem or text, in the first person.
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Relating to or reminiscent of American mythologist Joseph Campbell or his ideas, particularly the Hero's Journey.
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Of or pertaining to cosmogony.
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A symbolic account of the creation of the world/universe in a particular culture; often involving a creator deity.
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One of the propagating mutating cultural units that form the subject of memetics.
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A myth, or urban myth, associated with or transmitted by means of the Internet.
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Of or relating to an epic.
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To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus.
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(mythology) A term used as a qualifier of the name of a deity in order to designate said deity in a particular aspect or role.
adj
Of, or related to escapology.
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(uncountable) The belief that legends and mythology arise from exaggerated descriptions of historical people and events.
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Alternative form of euhemerism [(uncountable) The belief that legends and mythology arise from exaggerated descriptions of historical people and events.]
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(rare, humorous) The study of evil.
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A myth that describes some geological event.
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The history and genealogy of demigods or heroes, especially the uncompleted history found in portions of Hesiod's Theogony.
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(obsolete, biology) Synonym of hereditary or evolutionary.
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Relating to history and philosophy.
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Relating to history and prophecy.
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The thought or idea that underlies a myth.
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of a myth or tradition that has its origin in a misrepresentation of an earlier one
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(rare) The study of peace.
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Legends in general; mythology.
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(mythology) A cyclical journey or quest undertaken by a mythical hero.
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Of or relating to a monomyth.
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Of or relating to a monomyth.
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Of or relating to mystory.
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In terms of or by means of mystory.
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Relating to mystoriography.
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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.
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(fandom slang) The ongoing story arc that underpins all episodes of a television series.
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Obsolete form of myth. [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.]
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The essential kernel of a myth.
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Mythical; existing in myth.
adv
In relation to or by means of myth
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The habitual practice of attributing everything to mythological causes; superstition, the opposite of rationalism, or of realism.
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An adherent of mythicism (view that a certain person is mythical and never existed).
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conversion into a myth or legend
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Relating to myth and ritual.
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(neologism) False information, when seen as having its own mythology or being believed in like a myth would be.
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Myths generally; belief in myth.
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Of or relating to mythistory.
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A history incorporating elements of myth.
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Resembling or characteristic of a myth.
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The production or composing of myths.
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Alternative form of mythogeography [The myths and/or folklore associated with a place.]
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The quasi-logical system that underpins mythology, involving oppositions, metaphors, etc.
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(rare) Producing or capable of producing myths.
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Of or pertaining to mythogeography.
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The myths and/or folklore associated with a place.
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Of or pertaining to mythography.
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A depiction of a myth in literature or the arts.
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Of or pertaining to mythohistory.
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Abbreviation of mythology. [(countable and uncountable) The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.]
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A basic core element, motif or theme of a myth.
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Alternative form of mythologem [A basic core element, motif or theme of a myth.]
adj
(mythology) Of or pertaining to mythology
adj
Of, or relating to myths or mythology.
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Capable of being mythologized.
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A fabulous narrative; a myth.
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(countable and uncountable) A similar body of myths concerning an event, person or institution.
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The constitutive myth that gives an ethnic group its sense of purpose.
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The study of myths in general and how they develop, as contrasted with mythology, the study of specific existing myths.
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An eponym originating in mythology.
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the subject of a myth; the material covered in a given myth.
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(mythology) a writer of mythic poetry; a mythopoeic writer.
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(mythology) Pertaining to the creation of myths; pertaining to mythopoiesis.
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A mythopoetic system or construction.
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(mythology) the creation of myth.
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Obsolete spelling of mythopoeia [Creation of any myth.]
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obsolete typography of mythopoeic [Giving rise to myths; pertaining to the creation of myth.]
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obsolete typography of mythopoeist [A myth-maker.]
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(by extension) A set of assumptions or beliefs about something.
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A landscape based on myth, or expressed in terms of myth.
adj
(informal) Of or pertaining to myth; mythical.
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A commonly-held false belief about neuroscience or something falling within its area of study.
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After the development of mythology, or the time when it was popularly believed in.
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An initial form of a myth that is inferred or known about only from secondary sources; a motif that is not yet accorded the status of myth, but may (it is supposed) become one.
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A literary creation or fantasy having certain aspects of myth; a mythos.
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The study of pyramids (especially the Egyptian pyramids) from a supernatural or new-age perspective, rather than the historical or archaeological viewpoint.
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(mythology) A series of twenty-two tropes common among fictional protagonists.
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(rare, nonstandard) Synonym of scientist
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(humorous) Synonym of scientist
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Almost mythic; having certain qualities of a myth or legend.
adj
Almost mythical; having certain qualities of a myth or legend.
adj
Having certain elements of mythology.
adj
(mythology) Concerned with the mythological motif of the origins of foods, food sources, or food-related aspects of human culture.
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(derogatory) A tendency to overstate the role of the sun in explaining the roots of mythology.
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(derogatory) One who tends to overstate the role of the sun in explaining the roots of mythology.
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Creation by a created being.
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A legend (fabulous story) making up part of a larger legend; a submyth.
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A myth making up part of a larger myth.
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Of, relating to, or like, a talisman.
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(parapsychology, science fiction) A person with techno-telepathic ability, capable of reading the electrical signals of devices, such as computers, around them.
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(chiefly in ancient religion) The origination of gods or a narrative describing the origin of gods.
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Writing about a god or gods.
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Any natural object or living creature that serves as an emblem of a tribe, clan or family.
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Synonym of logolatry (“the worship of words”)
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