mythology

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nounfolklore

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noun folklore

Antonyms for mythology

legend

noun. story of the past, often fictitious

legends

noun. story of the past, often fictitious

religion

noun. belief in divinity; system of beliefs

Word Origin & History

early 15c., "exposition of myths," from Middle French mythologie and directly from Late Latin mythologia, from Greek mythologia "legendary lore, a telling of mythic legends; a legend, story, tale," from mythos "myth" (of unknown origin) + -logy "study." Meaning "a body of myths" first recorded 1781.

Example Sentences for mythology

It is not so with the new fables which the Greeks are continually mixing with their mythology.

May not this hare of the Indian mythology be the moon-dog of some of our own legends?

His mythology, when he came to paint the world in myths, was Manichean.

Like mythology, Greek philosophy has a tendency to personify ideas.

For Plato is in advance of his age in his conception of language, as much as he is in his conception of mythology.

They are a substitute for poetry and mythology; and they are also a reform of mythology.

In this fanciful tale Plato has dropped, or almost dropped, the garb of mythology.

He is arguing 'ad hominem' according to the notions of mythology current in his age.

Nor can many stories be told about gods like these,—the Romans have no mythology.

But Micheals' mind was in mythology now, retreating from the unbearable present.

mythology

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folklore

legend

legends

lore

mythos

religion