Associations to the word «Myth»
Noun
- Tale
- Telling
- Saga
- Epithet
- Boa
- Medusa
- Fascism
- Storytelling
- Argonaut
- Reality
- Herodotus
- Nymph
- Rite
- Origin
- Cupid
- Rationality
- Recount
- Odysseus
- Prehistory
- Anthropologist
- Fleece
- Gods
- Genesis
- Nietzsche
- Fertility
- Plutarch
- Fallacy
- Hero
- Stereotype
- Gaia
- Yoruba
- Jung
- Mortal
- Historiography
- Crete
- Navajo
- Totem
- Fragmentary
- Symbol
- Graves
- Utopia
- Pandora
- Inuit
- Proverb
- Ancient
- Negation
- Romanticism
- Immortality
- Anthropology
- Apollo
- Greek
- Shamanism
- Aborigine
- Nationalism
- Interpretation
- Veda
- Conception
- Religion
- Dogma
- Rape
- Allusion
- Belief
- Critique
- Divinity
Adjective
Wiktionary
MYTH, noun. A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc.
MYTH, noun. (uncountable) Such stories as a genre.
MYTH, noun. A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality.
MYTH, noun. A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend
MYTH, noun. A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
Dictionary definition
MYTH, noun. A traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people.
Wise words
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable
fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those
symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated
by the inaudible language of the heart.