mythologize

[ mi-thol-uh-jahyz ]

/ mɪˈθɒl əˌdʒaɪz /

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verb (used without object), my·thol·o·gized, my·thol·o·giz·ing.

to classify, explain, or write about myths.

to construct or narrate myths.

verb (used with object), my·thol·o·gized, my·thol·o·giz·ing.

to make into or explain as a myth; make mythical.

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Also especially British, my·thol·o·gise .

Origin of mythologize

1595–1605; mytholog(y) + -ize; compare French mythologiser

OTHER WORDS FROM mythologize

my·thol·o·gi·za·tion, nounmy·thol·o·giz·er, noun

Words nearby mythologize

mythoi, mythol., mythologem, mythological, mythologist, mythologize, mythology, mythomane, mythomania, mythopoeia, mythopoeic

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How to use mythologize in a sentence

Our penchant for mythologizing canine companions may be just as ancient as our relationship with them, so d’Huy is turning to these stories in a bid to shed more light on the history of dog domestication.
How mythology could help demystify dog domestication|Elyse DeFranco|September 7, 2022|Science News
Yet, for as pathbreaking as “Hamilton” was, it presents a fairly stodgy take on the Founders, one that mythologizes them and especially glosses over their relationship to slavery.
’1776’ — not ‘Hamilton’ — is the musical that best portrays the Founders|Zachary Clary|July 1, 2021|Washington Post
He began to mythologize about it on account of the grand elements of welfare, risk, and skill which were in it.
Folkways|William Graham Sumner
Perhaps; but, as in the days of Plato, we must needs mythologize when we come to deal with the other life.
Tragic Sense Of Life|Miguel de Unamuno

No progress of science can wholly eradicate this tendency to mythologize.
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals|Edmund P. Evans
They always reveal the invincible tendency of the masses to mythologize.
Folkways|William Graham Sumner
If, since we are discussing a metaphysical issue,431 we must mythologize, we might call it the "will to self-expression."
Creative Intelligence|John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen

British Dictionary definitions for mythologize

mythologize

mythologise

/ (mɪˈθɒləˌdʒaɪz) /

verb

to tell, study, or explain (myths)

(intr) to create or make up myths

(tr) to convert into a myth

Derived forms of mythologize

mythologization or mythologisation, nounmythologer, mythologizer or mythologiser, noun

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