mythopoeticize

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Etymology[edit]

mythopoetic +‎ -ize

Verb[edit]

mythopoeticize (third-person singular simple present mythopoeticizes, present participle mythopoeticizing, simple past and past participle mythopoeticized)

  1. (transitive) To make mythopoetic; to express in mythic poetry.
    • 2009 October 4, Stacey D’Erasmo, “Glory Days”, in New York Times[1]:
      I lay around my Barnard dorm room listening to Nina Simone records and reading his first novel, “Forgetting Elena,” which takes place in a highly mythopoeticized version of Fire Island and nominally concerns a man with amnesia.