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Mythos vs Mythic - What's the difference?

mythos | mythic |

As a noun mythos

is a story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group.

As an adjective mythic is

larger-than-life.

mythos

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group.
  • Anything delivered by word of mouth: a word, speech, conversation, or similar; a story, tale, or legend, especially a poetic tale.
  • A tale, story, or narrative, usually verbally transmitted, or otherwise recorded into the written form from an alleged secondary source.

    • Usage notes

    * An analysis of the comparative frequency of the plural forms mythoi and mythoses in four corpora revealed that in the two of them that had either plural form, (term) was rare and (term) was non-existent.The British National Corpus (BYU–BNC)]: (term) (0) vs. (term) (0)The [http://www.americancorpus.org/ Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)]: (term) (1) vs. (term) (0)[http://corpus.byu.edu/oed/ BYU–OED: The Oxford English Dictionary]: (term) (4) vs. (term) (0)The [http://corpus.byu.edu/time/ TIME Magazine Corpus of American English]: (term) (0) vs. (term) (0) Moreover, of ten other dictionaries, seven list (term) as the only valid plural,“[http://www.bartleby.com/61/57/M0515700.html mythos]” listed in the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [4th Ed.]“[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mythos mythos]” defined by Dictionary.com Unabridged'“[http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861632246 mythos]” defined by the Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Ed.]“[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mythos mythos]” defined by the '''Free Online Dictionary'''“[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mythos mythos]” defined by '''Merriam–Webster’s Online Dictionary'''“[http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/00320492?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=mythos&first=1&max_to_show=10 mythos, ''n.'']” listed in the '''Oxford English Dictionary''' [draft revision; June 2008]“[http://dictionary.infoplease.com/mythos mythos]” defined by the '''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''', © 1997 Random House, Inc., on Infoplease the other three are tacit regarding the matter,“[http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/foldop/foldoc.cgi?mythos mythos]” listed in Garth Kemerling’s '''Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names''' [2001]“[http://www.wordsmyth.net/live/home.php?script=search&matchent=mythos&matchtype=exact mythos]” defined by '''Wordsmyth'''“[http://www.yourdictionary.com/mythos mythos” defined by ' YourDictionary.com but none of them mention (term).

    Related terms

    * myth * mythopoeia * mythopoeic

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    mythic

    English

    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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