Etymology

Noun

1. A story of a great but unknown age which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient story of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin.
2. A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable. This word originates from the Sanskrit word "Mithya"; with the same meaning [AR]
3. A commonly-held belief

Related terms

• mythic
• mythical
• mythicize
• mythological
• mythology
• mythopoeia
• mythopoeic
• mythopoesis
• mythos