mythico-, mytho-, myth-, -mythical, -mythical, -mythically, -mythic +
(Greek: talk, speech, word; story; legend)
mythographer
A writer or narrator of myths.
mythographic
Of or pertaining to the representation of mythical subjects in art, literature, etc.
mythography
1. The recording of myths in writing.
2. A critical collection of myths.
3. A written representation or expression of myths.
4. The descriptive study, or artistic representation, of myths.
mythologem
A recurrent pattern, event, or theme in myths, as an explanation of the change of seasons; folklore motifs.
mythologer
A narrator of myths and legends.
mythological
Of or belonging to mythology; based upon or of the nature of mythology or mythical narrative; having reference to a myth or myths.
mythologist
1. A writer of myths.
2. One who is versed in myths or mythology.
mythologize
1. To relate a myth or myths; to construct a mythology.
2. To make mythical; to convert into myth or mythology; to mythicize.
mythology
1. That department of knowledge that deals with myths.
2. A group of myths that belong to a particular people or culture and tell about their ancestors, heroes, gods, and other supernatural beings and history.
3. The study of myths, or the branch of knowledge that deals with myths.
Mythological Roman and Greek deities with related images.
mythomane
1. Someone who has a strong tendency to lie, to exaggerate, or to believe something is true when it is not.
2. A person who is abnormally prone to lie, to exaggerate, or to believe something is true even when there is no evidence to substantiate such a view point.
mythomania
1. Excessive interest in myths and propensity for incredible stories and fabrications.
2. Pathological lying or exaggerating; pseudologia phantastica.
mythomaniac
One who has an abnormal or pathological tendency to lie or to exaggerate.
mythophobia
1. An unreasonable apprehension about making false statements or of untrue stories; an unnatural fear of incorrectness.
2. A pathological fear of stories or myths; disbelief in everything one is told.
mythopoeia
1. The creating of myths.
2. Of or relating to the making of myths.
3. Serving to create or engender myths; productive in mythmaking.
mythopoeic, mythopoetic
1. Relating to, involving, or engaged in the production of myths.
2. Serving to create or engender myths; productive in mythmaking.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.":
cit-;
clam-;
dic-;
English Words: Origins and Histories;
fa-;
-farious;
glosso-;
glotto-;
lalo-;
linguo-;
locu-;
logo-;
loqu-;
-ology;
ora-;
-phasia;
-phemia;
phon-;
phras-;
Quotes: Language,Part 1;
Quotes: Language, Part 2;
Quotes: Language, Part 3;
serm-;
tongue;
voc-.
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