Meaning of mythology in English
(Definition of mythology from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
mythology | American Dictionary
Examples of mythology
mythology
One finds a similar conflict in other cultures, other mythologies, other cosmologies.
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Archaeological sites are the liminal spaces of later mythologies.
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Looking at them closely allows us to see how a great achievement of literary mimesis explores its own mythologies of art.
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Polytheism is merely a later reworking of this primal content, which is now dispersed through a series of diversified mythologies.
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In the grand tradition, local rockers have employed such dichotomies within performance mythologies and marketing strategies.
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They celebrated the prosaic and "natural" causes over the fantastic claims of the mythologies and allegories.
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Bearing in mind our severely limited working memory capacity, susceptibility to religious mythologies may comprise an adaptive heuristic approach to summarizing the contingencies of the most far-reaching of life's problems.
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The conversion of city and suburban spaces to local places of performance fed into nationalist mythologies, which in turn masked the tortuous processes involved in this transformation.
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By studying one thinker who has contributed much to the development of a certain type of political thought we might, as a result, avoid the problem of simply re-creating mythologies.
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As with so many other 'revolutions' the official mythology has it that before the revolution there was nothing; everything began with the revolution.
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I warned explicitly for a mystification of particularity and the dangers of a return to mythology.
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While seeming, temporarily, to have reinforced the mythology of manliness, did they not, in the end, bear witness to the extreme fragility of masculine identity?
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I am therefore glad of the opportunity to dispel misconceptions and mythologies.
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He really went a long way to puncture the mythologies and nonsenses that are apt to grow as feeling grows in this matter.
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Several speakers have made reference to the way in which this report debunks and dispels mythologies such as sovereignty.
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