mythologize

[ mi-thol-uh-jahyz ]
/ mɪˈθɒl əˌdʒaɪz /

verb (used without object), my·thol·o·gized, my·thol·o·giz·ing.

to classify, explain, or write about myths.
to construct or narrate myths.

verb (used with object), my·thol·o·gized, my·thol·o·giz·ing.

to make into or explain as a myth; make mythical.
Also especially British, my·thol·o·gise.

Origin of mythologize

1595–1605; mytholog(y) + -ize; compare French mythologiser

OTHER WORDS FROM mythologize

my·thol·o·gi·za·tion, noun my·thol·o·giz·er, noun

Words nearby mythologize

mythoi, mythol., mythologem, mythological, mythologist, mythologize, mythology, mythomane, mythomania, mythopoeia, mythopoeic

Example sentences from the Web for mythologize

  • He began to mythologize about it on account of the grand elements of welfare, risk, and skill which were in it.

    Folkways |William Graham Sumner

  • They always reveal the invincible tendency of the masses to mythologize.

    Folkways |William Graham Sumner

  • No progress of science can wholly eradicate this tendency to mythologize.

    The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals |Edmund P. Evans

  • If, since we are discussing a metaphysical issue,431 we must mythologize, we might call it the "will to self-expression."

    Creative Intelligence |John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen

British Dictionary definitions for mythologize

mythologize

mythologise

/ (mɪˈθɒləˌdʒaɪz) /

verb

to tell, study, or explain (myths)
(intr) to create or make up myths
(tr) to convert into a myth

Derived forms of mythologize

mythologization or mythologisation, noun mythologer, mythologizer or mythologiser, noun