Polymythy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A combination of multiple plots in a single narrative. rare, uncountable

    "POLY′MYTHY (S[ubstantive]) in Poetry, a fault in an epic poem, when inſtead of a ſingle mythos, or fable, there is a multiplicity of them."

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"POLY′MYTHY (S[ubstantive]) in Poetry, a fault in an epic poem, when inſtead of a ſingle mythos, or fable, there is a multiplicity of them."

Etymology

From poly- + myth + -y.

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