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mythogenic

American  
[mith-uh-jen-ik] / ˌmɪθ əˈdʒɛn ɪk /

adjective

  1. producing or capable of producing myths.

Etymology

Origin of mythogenic

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

Example Sentences

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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."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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