mythos
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8.1
- noun
- /ˈmɪθoʊs/
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- Every culture has a unique mythos that explains its history and traditions.
Or she's going to call them, you know, mythos.
- Or she's going to call them, you know, mythos.
- So he was trying to create a philosophical system that gathered to it, I think, the core mythos of Christianity.
- And therefore the mythos of mankind that we're currently living with says it's OK to put the profit over the people and it's making the nation and the world sick.
- So it's got to be a deeper foundational, I called it mythos throughout this whole discussion.
- This goes to our discussion about the the mythos Sisyphus Kamu question about why I live.
Examples
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It was a film that revered the mythos of comic books and I would say truer to comic book fandom than many of the films that have come out since.
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But like I said, this is all where the mythos of meritocracy comes in.
Blog text (13) -
The fact that it was hard to find for a long time fuels this mythos.
Blog text (2) -
The rest of the time, it seemed to focus mainly on the Egyptian mythos.
Blog text (26) -
Partly it's because they believe the mythos that the United States is always on the side of democracy and self-determination.
Blog text (24) -
Yet it had the highest repute and even today is part of the mythos of literary modernism.
Academic text (2010) -
Some have claimed that it is the intrinsic consistency of the basic Christian mythos that grants consistency to situation-related reflection.
Academic text (1990) -
The sports-loving aliens have become obsessed with their odd version of our cowboy mythos and have enlisted many of our domestic students in their competitions.
Fiction book (2000) -
Even their rudimentary mythos was dominated by the hunt, by legends of an Ornitholestes Valhalla.
Fiction book (2002) -
The mythos of ancient Greece includes tales of gods and goddesses that shaped their culture.
Synonyms
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6.1
Knowledge and stories that people pass down over generations
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5.5
A group of old stories from a culture about gods and heroes
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4.9
Traditional stories, customs, and beliefs people pass down through generations
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4.2
Stories and beliefs people tell in a particular town or region
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3.9
Traditional stories people tell to explain past events or cultural beliefs, often not true
How Foundational
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mythos comes from an old Greek word mythos meaning 'story'. Think of the English word myth, which are the old tales people tell to explain their customs and origins, so mythos is the whole collection of those stories that shape a culture.