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Euhemerization

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euhemerisationnoun(UK) Alternative form of euhemerization. [(uncountable, derogatory) The fanciful invention of plausible historical figures and events as an attempt to rationalize mythology and legends]
euhemerismnoun(uncountable) The belief that legends and mythology arise from exaggerated descriptions of historical people and events.
eumerismnounAlternative form of euhemerism. [(uncountable) The belief that legends and mythology arise from exaggerated descriptions of historical people and events.]
demythologisationnounAlternative form of demythologization. [The removal of mythological elements from something, especially from religious writing.]
euphuismnoun(uncountable) An ornate style of writing (in Elizabethan England) marked by the excessive use of alliteration, antithesis and mythological similes.
demythificationnounSynonym of demythologization.
aeolismnoun(uncountable) A fictional religion in the works of Jonathan Swift that worships the wind in general, and rhetorical form over substance in particular.
mythopœianounObsolete spelling of mythopoeia. [Creation of any myth.]
eidolopeianounAlternative form of eidolopoeia. [(rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a speech is attributed to a deceased person, a phantom, an image or an idol.]
pseudohistorynoun(derogatory) False history.
pseudepigraphanounWritings falsely ascribed to famous persons (historical or mythical) to lend them greater legitimacy, typically composed many centuries after the ostensible author's death.
anthimerianoun(rhetoric) The use of a word from one word class or part of speech as if it were from another, in English typically the use of a noun as if it were a verb.
hyperaeolismnoun(linguistics, Hellenics) A hypercorrection or incorrect substitution of non-Aeolic Ancient Greek word forms and morphology to match those of Aeolic Greek.
eponymismnounThe use of eponyms.
pseudomythologynounA literary creation or fantasy having certain aspects of myth; a mythos.
pious fictionnoun(sometimes derogatory) A fictional, often religious narrative, presented as true by its author to accomplish some altruistic motive.
pseudo-historynounAlternative spelling of pseudohistory. [(derogatory) False history.]
epicositynoun(rare, humorous) Synonym of epicness.
fabulismnoun(literature) A literary form in which fantastical elements are placed into an everyday setting.
idolopoeianounAlternative form of eidolopoeia. [(rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a speech is attributed to a deceased person, a phantom, an image or an idol.]

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