Mythopoeticize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make mythopoetic; to express in mythic poetry. transitive

    "I lay around my Barnard dorm room listening to Nina Simone records and reading his first novel, “Forgetting Elena,” which takes place in a highly mythopoeticized version of Fire Island and nominally concerns a man with amnesia."

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"I lay around my Barnard dorm room listening to Nina Simone records and reading his first novel, “Forgetting Elena,” which takes place in a highly mythopoeticized version of Fire Island and nominally concerns a man with amnesia."

Etymology

From mythopoetic + -ize.

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