mythopoeticize

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verb

To make mythopoetic; to express in mythic poetry.

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Meanings

verbmythopoeticize (third-person singular simple present mythopoeticizes, present participle mythopoeticizing, simple past and past participle mythopoeticized)

present singular third person mythopoeticizes · participle present mythopoeticizing · participle past mythopoeticized · past mythopoeticized

  1. transitiveTo make mythopoetic; to express in mythic poetry.

    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.

    2009 October 4, Stacey D’Erasmo, “Glory Days”, in New York Times

Origin

From mythopoetic + -ize.

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APA

mythopoeticize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mythopoeticize

MLA

“mythopoeticize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mythopoeticize. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mythopoeticize,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mythopoeticize.

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