mythologize

[ mi-thol-uh-jahyz ]

verb (used without object),my·thol·o·gized, my·thol·o·giz·ing.
  1. to classify, explain, or write about myths.

  2. to construct or narrate myths.

verb (used with object),my·thol·o·gized, my·thol·o·giz·ing.
  1. to make into or explain as a myth; make mythical.

Origin of mythologize

1
1595–1605; mytholog(y) + -ize; compare French mythologiser
  • Also especially British, my·thol·o·gise .

Other words from mythologize

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

Words Nearby mythologize

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How to use mythologize in a sentence

  • 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
  1. to tell, study, or explain (myths)

  2. (intr) to create or make up myths

  1. (tr) to convert into a myth

Derived forms of mythologize

  • mythologization or mythologisation, noun
  • mythologer, mythologizer or mythologiser, noun

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