Mythopoetic
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Giving rise to myths; pertaining to the creation of myth.
- 2 Being a creative interpretation.
- 3 Given the quality of a myth or a poem, used typically in opposition to a purely factual account.
- 4 Of or relating to the mythopoetic men's movement.
"Darren Staloff's lecture Search for a Meaningful Past: Philosophies, Theories and Interpretations of Human History, The Teaching Company "An example of the former, of the mythopoetic history, may be Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche, or Ecce Homo his own mythopoetic autobiography.""
Example
More examples"Darren Staloff's lecture Search for a Meaningful Past: Philosophies, Theories and Interpretations of Human History, The Teaching Company "An example of the former, of the mythopoetic history, may be Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche, or Ecce Homo his own mythopoetic autobiography.""
Etymology
From mytho- + poetic; since 1880.
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