Mythopoeticize
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 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."
Example
More examples"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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