mythogenic

[mith-uh-jen-ik]

adjective

1. producing or capable of producing myths.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mythogenic¹

First recorded in 1960–65; mytho- + -genic

Example Sentences

Religious institutions are now disintegrating, the two researchers believe, because religion has cut itself off from its "principal sources of nourishment�the soul, the symbolic and mythogenic process, the psychic energy resources."

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But Johnson's mythogenic capacity is limited; the Lyndon legend has not taken wing.

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