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Mythic vs Magic - What's the difference?

mythic | magic |

As adjectives the difference between mythic and magic

is that mythic is larger-than-life while magic is having supernatural talents, properties or qualities attributed to magic.

As a noun magic is

the use of rituals or actions, especially based on supernatural or occult knowledge, to manipulate or obtain information about the natural world, especially when seen as falling outside the realm of religion; also the forces allegedly drawn on for such practices.

As a verb magic is

to produce, transform (something), (as if) by magic.

As a proper noun Magic is

the decrypted Japanese messages produced by US cryptographers in and prior to World War II.

mythic

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Larger-than-life.
  • * 1998 , Chloé Diepenbrock, Gynecology and textuality: popular representations , page 88:
    • 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.
  • * 2007 , James Daniel Hardy, Baseball and the mythic moment: how we remember the national game , page 63:
    • Had Pesky nailed Enos Slaughter in the 1946 Series, his throw home would have become a mythic moment.
  • * 2008 , Peter Schmidt, Sitting in darkness: New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow , page 156:
    • The Wyoming territories become a mythic space where character is tested and revealed and Good battles Evil.
  • * 2010 , Networks of Design: Proceedings of the 2008 Annual International Conference of the Design History Society , page 161:
    • 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.
  • Mythical; existing in myth.
  • * 2005 , Gerhard Hoffmann, From modernism to postmodernism: concepts and strategies , page 294:
    • Bellerophon attempts to become a mythic' hero by perfectly imitating the actuarial program for ' mythic heroes.
  • * 2008 , Laurence Jay Silberstein, Postzionism: a reader , page 351:
    • 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.

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    magic

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    Alternative forms

    * magick (qualifier) Used as a deliberate archaism; used for supernatural magic, as distinguished from stage magic. * magicke (obsolete) * magique (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The use of rituals or actions, especially based on supernatural or occult knowledge, to manipulate or obtain information about the natural world, especially when seen as falling outside the realm of religion; also the forces allegedly drawn on for such practices.
  • *c. 1489 , (William Caxton), Foure Sonnes of Aymon :
  • *:And whan he shall be arrayed as I telle you / lete hym thenne doo his incantacyons & his magyke as he wyll […].
  • *1781 , (Edward Gibbon), Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , II.23:
  • *:The arts of magic and divination were strictly prohibited.
  • *1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 23:
  • *:Conversions to the new religion […] have frequently been assisted by the view of converts that they are acquiring not just a means of otherworldly salvation, but a new and more powerful magic .
  • A specific ritual or procedure associated with supernatural magic or with mysticism; a spell.
  • Something producing remarkable results, especially when not fully understood; an enchanting quality; exceptional skill.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.}}
  • A conjuring trick or illusion performed to give the appearance of supernatural phenomena or powers.

    • Synonyms

    * (allegedly supernatural method to dominate natural forces) dwimmer, thaumaturgy, conjuring, sorcery, witchcraft, dweomercraft/dwimmercraft * (illusion performed to give the appearance of magic or the supernatural) sleight of hand, illusionism, legerdemain, dwimmer

    Adjective

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  • Having supernatural talents, properties or qualities attributed to magic.
    • a magic''' wand; a '''magic dragon
  • Producing extraordinary results, as though through the use of magic; wonderful, amazing.
    • a magic moment
  • Pertaining to conjuring tricks or illusions performed for entertainment etc.
    • a magic''' show; a '''magic trick
  • (colloquial) Great; excellent.
    • — I cleaned up the flat while you were out. — Really? Magic !
  • (physics) Describing the number of nucleons in a particularly stable isotopic nucleus; 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126, and 184.

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    Verb

    (magick)
  • To produce, transform (something), (as if) by magic.

    • Synonyms

    * (produce magically) conjure up

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