Phrase Hound found 5 phrases and 57 compound words that contain myth. The most common are listed below. Open myth in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 5
- stab-in-the-back mythThe Dolchstoßlegende: a widespread historical conspiracy theory in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918, claiming that Germany did not lose World War I militarily and capitulated needlessly after having been betrayed by civilian …
- creation mythA symbolic account of the creation of the world/universe in a particular culture; often involving a creator deity.
- urban mythA widely circulated story, often believed to be true by the teller, but usually distorted, exaggerated or fabricated for sensational effect, and often having elements of humour or horror.
- origin mythA type of myth that explains the beginnings of a natural or social aspect of the world.
- ur-mythA myth believed to be a precursor or prototype to all existing myths.
Compound words 57
- mythicMythical; existing in myth.
- edumythPseudoscientific belief about education, pedagogy, or learning without an empirical basis.
- demythSynonym of demythologize: To remove the mythological elements of.
- mythicismThe scholarly opinion that the gospels are mythological expansions of historical data.
- antimythA belief or system that opposes a myth or myths.
- mythonymAn eponym originating in mythology.
- mythpunkA subgenre of mythic fiction that starts in folklore and myth and adds elements of postmodernist literary techniques.
- mythscapeA landscape based on myth, or expressed in terms of myth.
- protomythAn initial form of a myth that is inferred or known about only from secondary sources; a motif that is not yet accorded the status of myth, but may (it is supposed) become one.
- mythismMyths generally; belief in myth.