Definition of mythopoeia in English:
mythopoeia
noun ˌmɪθə(ʊ)ˈpiːəˌmiTHəˈpēə
mass nounThe making of a myth or myths.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the next four chapters, he attempts to uncover the mythopoeia.
- He is the only one who relates mythopoeia to the dynamism of human imagination.
- A long phase of reverence for rationality subverted his original, spiritually frenetic passion for tragic mythopoeia.
- Do not think of Pressfield's Amazons as being designed to pamper reader's egos or expectations, think of them as what they are in his mythopoeia; an ancient and vicious band of sisters.
- I became too immersed in Pressfield's mythopoeia to give a damn about any of that.
- For, as noted above, Tasso's is the first vernacular poem to mold Musaeus in the Ovidian heroic manner: apostrophe, ethopoeia and digressive mythopoeia abound.
Origin
1950s: from Greek muthopoiia, from muthos 'myth' + poiein 'make'.