Lore vs Myth - What's the difference?
lore | myth |
all the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.
* Milton
The backstory created around a fictional universe.
(obsolete) workmanship
(anatomy) The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
(anatomy) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.
(obsolete) (lose)
* Spenser
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.
(uncountable) Such stories as a genre.
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.
A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend
A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
* Ld. Lytton
As nouns the difference between lore and myth
is that lore is all the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience while myth is 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.As a verb lore
is past tense of lose.lore
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lore, from (etyl) '', German ''Lehre . See also (l).Noun
- the lore of the Ancient Egyptians
- His fair offspring, nursed in princely lore .
- (Spenser)
Derived terms
* birdlore * booklore * catlore * doglore * faxlore * fishlore * folklore * photocopylore * woodlore * wortlore * xeroxloreEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* loredEtymology 3
Verb
(head)- Neither of them she found where she them lore .
Anagrams
* ----myth
English
Alternative forms
* mythe (rare or archaic)Noun
(en noun)- Myth was the product of man's emotion and imagination, acted upon by his surroundings.'' (E. Clodd, ''Myths & Dreams (1885), 7, cited after OED)
- Father Flanagan was legendary, his institution an American myth. (Tucson (Arizona) Citizen, 20 September 1979, 5A/3, cited after OED)
- As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths these twenty years.