Meanings
nounmythification (countable and uncountable, plural mythifications)
plural mythifications
- countableuncountableConversion into a myth.
Both products of Hollywood’s youth boom of the late ’60s, “Woodstock” and “Zabriskie Point” begin in the same cultural moment and head off in completely different directions: “Woodstock” toward a mythification of the recent past, “Zabriskie” toward a nameless dread of the near future.
2009 June 7, Dave Kehr, “Two Views of One Time”, in New York Times
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mythification. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mythification
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“mythification.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mythification. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mythification,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mythification.
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