English
Etymology
From myth + poetic; since 1880.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
mythopoetic

1. being a creative interpretation
2. Given the quality of a myth or a poem, used typically in opposition to a purely factual account

Quotations
Darren Staloff's lecture Search for a Meaningful Past: Philosophies, Theories and Interpretations of Human History
:"An example of the former, of the mythopoetic history, may be Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche, or Ecce Homo his own mythopoetic autobiography." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Teaching_Company

Synonyms
mythopoeic
mythopoetical

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