Legendary vs Mythic - What's the difference?
legendary | mythic |
Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends.
Appearing (solely) in legends.
Having the splendor of a legend; fabled.
Having unimaginable greatness; excellent to such an extent to evoke stories
* 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980]", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:
(obsolete) A collection of legends, in particular of lives of saints.
(obsolete) One who relates legends.
Larger-than-life.
* 1998 , Chloé Diepenbrock, Gynecology and textuality: popular representations , page 88:
* 2007 , James Daniel Hardy, Baseball and the mythic moment: how we remember the national game , page 63:
* 2008 , Peter Schmidt, Sitting in darkness: New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow , page 156:
* 2010 , Networks of Design: Proceedings of the 2008 Annual International Conference of the Design History Society , page 161:
Mythical; existing in myth.
* 2005 , Gerhard Hoffmann, From modernism to postmodernism: concepts and strategies , page 294:
* 2008 , Laurence Jay Silberstein, Postzionism: a reader , page 351:
As adjectives the difference between legendary and mythic
is that legendary is of or pertaining to a legend or to legends while mythic is larger-than-life.As a noun legendary
is a collection of legends, in particular of lives of saints.legendary
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(-)- And it was a fitting victory for Liverpool as Anfield celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of their legendary Scottish manager Bill Shankly.
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(legendaries)mythic
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(en adjective)- Whitehead-Gould has become a mythic presence in the case history fairy-tale: the personification of the selfish woman who went back on her promise to deliver up her child to an unfulfilled aspiring mother.
- Had Pesky nailed Enos Slaughter in the 1946 Series, his throw home would have become a mythic moment.
- The Wyoming territories become a mythic space where character is tested and revealed and Good battles Evil.
- By the mid-nineteenth century tartan had become a mythic material encompassing ideas of nationhood, clanship, and political allegiance seen through increasingly fashionable and spectacular forms.
- Bellerophon attempts to become a mythic' hero by perfectly imitating the actuarial program for ' mythic heroes.
- The ways in which Eastern Europe has become a mythic part of the Jewish past and not an imagined mythic home in the future is central to understanding how American Jews see themselves at home in America.