mythopoeic
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- mythopoeism noun
- mythopoeist noun
Etymology
Origin of mythopoeic
1840–50; < Greek mȳthopoi ( ós ) making tales ( mȳtho- mytho- + -poios making ( poi ( eîn ) to make + -os adj. suffix) + -ic
Example Sentences
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More than three decades after his final game—a pain-wracked cameo in the United States’s gold-medal win over Croatia in the 1992 Olympics—Larry Bird retains a mythopoeic quality.
Like most big cosmic ideas, this one has almost certainly been purloined, ornamented and abused more than once in the vast works of mythopoeic bricolage which DC and Marvel, America’s main comic-book publishers, have provided to the world over the past decades.
From Economist
It takes us back, she later wrote, to ‘‘the warrior, of some mythopoeic time before weapons were invented.’’
From New York Times
Stephanie Feldman’s debut novel, “The Angel of Losses,” is a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, winner of the Crawford Fantasy Award, and a finalist for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award.
From Salon
The whole so-called Celtic fringe, of areas in the west and north of Great Britain that were not invaded by the Saxons, is far more genetically diverse than its mythopoeic appellation suggests.
From Economist
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