adj
Meaning 1
Giving rise to myths; pertaining to the creation of myth.
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mythopoetic
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adj
Meaning 2
Being a creative interpretation.
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adj
Meaning 3
Given the quality of a myth or a poem, used typically in opposition to a purely factual account.
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Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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adj
Meaning 4
Of or relating to the mythopoetic men's movement.
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Examples
- Darren Staloff's lecture Search for a Meaningful Past: Philosophies, Theories and Interpretations of Human History, The Teaching Company "An example of the former, of the mythopoetic history, may be Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche, or Ecce Homo his own mythopoetic autobiography."
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History
Etymology
From mytho- + poetic; since 1880.