mythicism

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Synonyms: mythicise, mythicist, mysticism, gothicism, mythicize, ethicism, mytacism, metricism, mythicists

Antonyms: mythicise, mythicist, mysticism, gothicism, mythicize, ethicism, mytacism, metricism, mythicists

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|theology}} The scholarly opinion that the gospels are [[mythological]] expansions of historical data.
2. The habitual practice of attributing everything to mythological causes; [[superstition]], the opposite of [[rationalism]], or of [[realism]].
3. The creative potential for the creation of [[mythology]]; the faculty of [[mythopoeia]].
4. The view that a certain figure or event is [[unhistorical]] or [[mythical]], chiefly in the context of pseudo-scholarship.

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