mythologize
Verb (transitive):
- To transform into myth; to treat as mythical: To convert historical events, people, or objects into the subject of myth, often by exaggerating or embellishing their qualities.
- To construct or create a myth about something: To invent or narrate a story that has the characteristics of a traditional myth.
Verb (intransitive):
- To engage in the study or creation of myths: To be involved in mythological research or composition. (This sense is less common.)
Transitive verb (to make into a myth):
- Over time, people began to mythologize the old cowboy, turning him into a symbol of untamed freedom.
- The film deliberately mythologizes the founding of the company, ignoring its more complicated history.
Transitive verb (to construct a myth):
- The ancient poets would mythologize natural phenomena, giving storms and seasons divine explanations.
- He mythologized his childhood, describing it as a perfect, endless summer.
Intransitive verb:
- As a scholar, she dedicated her life to mythologize about ancient cultures. (Note: "to mythologize" in this intransitive sense is often replaced by "to study mythology" or "to create myths.")
Cultural Process: "Mythologize" often describes a cultural or societal process where facts become intertwined with legend.
- Nations often mythologize their war heroes to inspire patriotism.
Critical Connotation: The word can carry a critical tone, implying that the transformation into myth involves distortion or idealization.
- The biography seeks to demystify the artist, not to further mythologize him.
Mythologization (noun): The process or result of mythologizing.
- The mythologization of the frontier is a key theme in American literature.
Mythologizer (noun): A person who mythologizes.
- Demythologize (verb): To remove the mythical character from; to interpret rationally. This is an antonymic process.
- The historian aimed to demythologize the popular tales about the emperor.
- Romanticize: To make something seem more appealing or idealized than in reality.
- Glorify: To praise or honor excessively; to make glorious.
- Legendize: To turn into a legend (less common).
- Apotheosize: To elevate to the status of a god; to deify.
- Demythologize: To remove mythical elements.
- Debunk: To expose the falseness of a myth or belief.
- Historicize: To treat or represent as historical.
To become mythologized: A passive construction describing the state of having been turned into myth.
- The event has become so mythologized that the truth is hard to find.
Myth-making: The act or process of creating myths. This is a related noun phrase.
- The film is an exercise in pure myth-making.
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The Europeans have mythicized Rte. 66
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The poet mythologized that the King had three sons
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