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Mythopoeia vs Fantasy - What's the difference?

mythopoeia | fantasy |

As nouns the difference between mythopoeia and fantasy

is that mythopoeia is creation of any (l) while fantasy is that which comes from one's imagination.

As a verb fantasy is

(literary|psychoanalysis) to fantasize (about).

mythopoeia

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Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • Creation of any (l).
  • Synonyms

    * (l)

    fantasy

    Alternative forms

    * phantasie * phantasy (chiefly dated)

    Noun

    (fantasies)
  • That which comes from one's imagination.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Is not this something more than fantasy ?
  • * Milton
  • A thousand fantasies begin to throng into my memory.
  • (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and fictive medieval technology.
  • A fantastical design.
  • * Hawthorne
  • Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread.
  • (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
  • Derived terms

    * high fantasy * low fantasy

    Verb

  • (literary, psychoanalysis) To fantasize (about).
  • * 2013 , Mark J. Blechner, Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV
  • Perhaps I would be able to help him recapture the well-being and emotional closeness he fantasied his brother had experienced with his parents prior to his birth.
  • (obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.
  • (Cavendish)
  • * Robynson (More's Utopia)
  • Which he doth most fantasy .

    See also

    * fancy ----