Need another word that means the same as “myth”? Find 25 synonyms and 30 related words for “myth” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Myth” are: folk tale, story, folk story, legend, tale, fable, saga, allegory, parable, tradition, lore, folklore, belief, old wives' tale, notion, misconception, fallacy, false notion, misbelief, fairy story, fairy tale, fiction, fantasy, delusion, figment of the imagination
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “myth” as a noun can have the following definitions:
allegory | A short moral story (often with animal characters. Pilgrim s Progress is an allegory of the spiritual journey. |
belief | A religious conviction. A belief that climate can be modified beneficially. |
delusion | A mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea. The delusion of being watched. |
fable | A false statement or belief. He had conjured up a monster fit for any fable. |
fairy story | A small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers. |
fairy tale | Offensive term for an openly homosexual man. |
fallacy | Faulty reasoning. The potential for fallacy which lies behind the notion of self esteem. |
false notion | An odd or fanciful or capricious idea. |
fantasy | A fanciful mental image, typically one on which a person often dwells and which reflects their conscious or unconscious wishes. Look at their dedication to fantasy leagues and the enormous minutiae of the stats they memorize. |
fiction | Something that is invented or untrue. They were supposed to be keeping up the fiction that they were happily married. |
figment of the imagination | A contrived or fantastic idea. |
folk story | People descended from a common ancestor. |
folk tale | People descended from a common ancestor. |
folklore | The unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture. Hollywood folklore. |
legend | The wording on a map or diagram explaining the symbols used. A screen legend. |
lore | Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote. The jinns of Arabian lore. |
misbelief | A wrong or false belief or opinion. The misbelief that alcohol problems require a specialist response. |
misconception | An incorrect conception. Public misconceptions about antibiotic use. |
notion | (usually plural) small personal articles or clothing or sewing items. The theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories. |
old wives' tale | Past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old. |
parable | (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message. The parable of the prodigal son. |
saga | A narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account. Launching into the saga of her engagement. |
story | A plot or storyline. The novel has a good story. |
tale | A trivial lie. A delightful children s tale. |
tradition | An inherited pattern of thought or action. Visionary works in the tradition of William Blake. |
anthropomorphic | Relating to or characterized by anthropomorphism. Anthropomorphic bears and monkeys. |
avatar | The manifestation of a Hindu deity (especially Vishnu) in human or superhuman or animal form. He chose John Stuart Mill as the avatar of the liberal view. |
centaur | (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse. |
deification | An embodiment of the qualities of a god. The capitalists deification of capital. |
deify | Worship or regard as a god. These young men deify financial success. |
deity | The creator and supreme being (in a monotheistic religion such as Christianity. Also on show is a bronze falcon deity. |
dryad | A deity or nymph of the woods. |
fairy | A gay man. Fairy gold. |
faun | One of a class of lustful rural gods, represented as a man with a goat’s horns, ears, legs, and tail. |
goddess | A woman who is greatly admired, especially for her beauty. He had an affair with a screen goddess. |
hero | The principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem. Jumpsuits are hands down our hottest hero piece right now. |
idealize | Regard or represent as perfect or better than in reality. We idealize the life of a student. |
imagine | Expect, believe, or suppose. After Ned died everyone imagined that Mabel would move away. |
incarnate | (especially of a deity or spirit) embodied in human form. God incarnate. |
legend | A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events. A screen legend. |
legendary | Celebrated in fable or legend. The legendary exploits of the arctic trailblazers. |
mermaid | A mythical sea creature with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail of a fish, conventionally depicted as beautiful and with long flowing golden hair. |
mythical | Based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity. One of Denmark s greatest mythical heroes. |
mythological | Based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity. The tree of life is one of the oldest of all mythological symbols. |
mythology | Myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person. This field includes archaeology comparative mythology and folklore. |
oracle | A response or message given by an oracle especially an ambiguous one. He reigned supreme as the Colonial Office s oracle on Africa. |
pantheon | All the gods of a people or religion collectively. The pantheon of the all time greats. |
personification | A person who represents an abstract quality. The knight is accompanied by two feminine personifications of vice. |
phoenix | A legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years. I m that phoenix the old fashioned family doctor. |
priestess | A female priest of a non-Christian religion. |
saga | A narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account. Launching into the saga of her engagement. |
satyr | A satyrid butterfly with chiefly dark brown wings. Charles was an unmarried satyr. |
talisman | An object, typically an inscribed ring or stone, that is thought to have magic powers and to bring good luck. Those rings so fresh and gleaming were their talismans. |
unicorn | A heraldic representation of a unicorn with a twisted horn a deer s feet a goat s beard and a lion s tail. Team entries comprised two fours three unicorns and a three abreast. |
witch | A follower or practitioner of Wicca or of modern witchcraft. He can marry the old witch for all I care. |
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