Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Creation of any myth.
Etymologies
- mytho- + -poeia, dated 1951 CE, based on Ancient Greek μυθοποιία (mythopoiía, "I make myth"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In Adonais, Shelley having, as Actaeon, transgressed "across the threshold" to be slain by his own "hunter's dart" [297] enacts the kill, which sublates his mythopoeia, raising it as "the One" to its abstract essence.”
“JRR Tolkien referred to fantasy writing as mythopoeia, the creation of myth for the modern era.”
“Personally, I think responsible fantasy world-building mirrors the pre-modern narrative, favoring the oral traditions and mythopoeia the creation of twentieth century fantasy drew from.”
“John Barth has described Cat Rambo's writings as "works of urban mythopoeia"—her stories take place in a universe where chickens aid the lovelorn, Death is just another face on the train, and a rodent's wooing can affect an entire subterranean city.”
“A direct invitation to a free-for-all race for dispossession, justified on the grounds of the keeper's unworthiness, it recalls other schizophrenic conditions which are mother to, for instance, the far more lethal, dark mythopoeia of”
“HE has reached a stage of culture where such mythopoeia has become impossible.”
“For mythopoeia is just this, the incarnating the spirit of natural fact; and the generic name of that power is Art. A kind of creation, a clothing of essence in matter, an hypostatising (if you will have it) of an object of intuition within the folds of an object of sense.”
Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett
“However, post-Soviet non-humans are quite different from the hobbits and even the dragons of Tolkien's mythopoeia.”
“But one way of distinguishing mythopoeia from biography is whether or not his other distinguishing traits - such as his compulsive self-criticism (which could sometimes be even more severe than the charges of his detractors) and his desire to compensate for his self-absorption with certain forms of charm and generosity - are factored into the portrayal. novel) is intermittently attentive to the latter but completely oblivious to the former. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mythopoeia’.
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Words with Four Consecutive Vowels
This oughta be a short list, eh?
queue, queuing, homoiousian, miaou, onomatopoeia, hawaiian, iroquoian, kauai, kilauea, longueuil, louie, montesquieu and 58 more...
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four vowels in a row
aqueous, nonaqueous, subaqueous, terraqueous, hawaiian, obsequious, onomatopoeia, pharmacopoeia, queue, queuer, miaou, sequoia and 24 more...
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deidionysus's list
Words, words, words!
cartesian, shavian, dithyramb, dreadnaught, lea, adamantine, titanomachy, theomachy, aethereal, ambrosia, ambrosial, aether and 183 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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State Spelling Bee 2011
Words from the California State Spelling Bee in 2011, from which I got fourth place.
cymbidium, jurisprudence, entourage, cauterize, dressage, roux, pomaceous, malfeasance, jactitation, eclogue, caryotid, obloquy and 126 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
By David Foster Wallace
emeritus, apian, fenestration, prophylax, pelisse, niggardly, lallating, pica, simulacrum, floridly, acquiesced, truculent and 114 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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Word of Infinite Jest
quincunx, plosivity, prolix, aleatory, diagnate, appetitive, experialist, candidiatic, chapeau, perfidiously, antitheory, décolletage and 150 more...
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i know more than i knew before
Words learned and assimilated.
mackle, hummingbird, axenic, nacreous, atavic, suture, crepuscule, effluvium, dialectic, mythopoeia, leporine, caravansary and 13 more...
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jewels in your mouth
things you'd want to role around your tongue
poignant, chode, usa, baba ganoush, mythopoeia, curandera, banshee, ferrell, beatnick, poutine, la noche oscura d..., whipper snapper
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foolishbrat's Words
yarn, savor, blakean, kitschy, gift, bland, the rabbit died, eucatastrophe, mythopoeia, cherchez la femme, chthonic, hyacinth and 16 more...
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herotuesday's Words
butyraceous, thrasonical, turgid, ululate, irenic, punctilio, discombobulate, ecdysiast, formicate, favonian, agnate, erubescence and 614 more...
Tweets
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