Mythopoeic Definition

adjective
Of or relating to the making of myths.
American Heritage
Serving to create or engender myths; productive in mythmaking.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Mythopoeic

Noun

Singular:
mythopoeic
Plural:
mythopoeics

Origin of Mythopoeic

  • From Greek mūthopoios composer of fiction from mūthopoiein to relate a story mūthos story poiein to make kwei-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Hellenistic Ancient Greek μυθοποιία (muthopoiia, “mythopoeia") +"Ž -ic.

    From Wiktionary

Mythopoeic Sentence Examples

  • No king of Scotland could dream of executing such a coup d'etat; the authority for it is that mythopoeic earl of Arran who later became regent, and told the fable to Henry's agent, Sir Ralph Sadleyr.

  • The civilized men of the Mythopoeic age were not obliged, as Max Muller held, to believe that all phenomena were persons, because the words which denoted the phenomena had genderterminations.

  • They also said, "fire is brought by Matarigvan;" nothing could have been more in accordance with the mythopoeic mode of thought.

  • But men in Spencer's Mythopoeic age had much longer memories.

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