Synonyms for myth
mɪθmyth

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1. myth

   Fiction is now chiefly used of a prose work in narrative form in which the characters are partly or wholly imaginary, and which is designed to portray human life, with or without a practical lesson; a romance portrays what is picturesque or striking, as a mere fiction may not do; novel is a general name for any continuous fictitious narrative, especially a love-story; fiction and novel are used with little difference of meaning, except that novel characterizes a work in which the emotional element is especially prominent. The moral of the fable is expressed formally; the lesson of the fiction, if any, is inwrought. A fiction is studied; a myth grows up without intent. A legend may be true, but can not be historically verified; a myth has been received as true at some time, but is now known to be false. A fabrication is designed to deceive; it is a less odious word than falsehood, but is really stronger, as a falsehood may be a sudden unpremeditated statement, while a fabrication is a series of statements carefully studied and fitted together in order to deceive; the falsehood is all false; the fabrication may mingle the true with the false. A figment is something imaginary which the one who utters it may or may not believe to be true; we say, "That statement is a figment of his imagination." The story may be either true or false, and covers the various senses of all the words in the group. Apologue, a word simply transferred from Greek into English, is the same as fable. Compare ALLEGORY.

   Synonyms:
   allegory, apologue, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fiction, figment, invention, legend, novel, romance, story

   Antonyms:
   certainty, fact, history, literalness, reality, truth, verity

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1. myth

   Synonyms:
   fable, legend, parable, supposition, fiction, allegory, fabulous story, fabrication

   Antonyms:
   fact, history, narrative

Princeton's WordNet

1. mythnoun

   a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people

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1. • Story

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1. mythnoun

   Synonyms:
   fable, invention, allegory, parable, fiction, fabulous story

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1. mythnoun

   Synonyms:
   legend, tradition, fable

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1. List of paraphrases for "myth":

   mito, mythe, mythology, myths, legend, mythic, mythical, fable

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1. Irwin Edman:

   The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

2. Phyllis McGinley:

   I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.

3. Janice Bellucci:

   This is a solution without a problem, (The corrections department's) sign requirement is based upon myth, not facts. The facts are there are no reports in California of a sexual assault upon a child who goes trick or treating.

4. Paul Feyerabend:

   Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.

5. Gabriel Weinberg:

   It’s really a myth that you need to track people to get good search results, most of the personalization people want is really localization. And we can do that without tracking you, because your location is kind of embedded in the request you make to us. We can use that on the fly for that search and not save or store it and still give you local things on DuckDuckGo.