mythopoeic

comparative more mythopoeic · superlative most mythopoeic

1. Giving rise to myths; pertaining to the creation of myth.

   No other fully historical hero has furnished such a perfect opportunity for the mythopoeic faculty.

   1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.25

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   If we study myth in a scientific way, we miss the experience of moving into a mythopoeic mode of consciousness.

   1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 8

   Suppose a serious literary critic were to write about Hollywood autobiographies: “Niven experiences life as an imprisoning reality of personal experience, plus mythopoeic elements, a vast sottisier in the tradition of Jessel's This way, Miss.[…]

   1985 December 23, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, “Book of The Times”, in The New York Times

   Synonyms: mythogenic