myth
85 synonyms found
- adventure story
- allegory
- ancient wisdom
- apologue
- archetypal myth
- archetypal pattern
- bedtime story
- brainchild
- canard
- chimera
- cock-and-bull story
- common law
- delirium
- detective story
- eidolon
- extravaganza
- fable
- fabliau
- fabrication
- fairy tale
- fantasque
- fantasy
- fib
- fiction
- figment
- folk motif
- folk story
- folklore
- folktale
- forgery
- gest
- ghost story
- hallucination
- history
- horse opera
- idle fancy
- illusion
- imagery
- imagination
- imagining
- immemorial usage
- insubstantial image
- invention
- legend
- lore
- love story
- make-believe
- Marchen
- Mishnah
- mystery
- mystery story
- mythology
- mythos
- nursery tale
- parable
- phantasm
- prevarication
- racial memory
- romance
- saga
- science fiction
- shocker
- sick fancy
- space fiction
- space opera
- Spiritus Mundi
- Sunna
- suspense story
- tall tale
- Talmud
- thick-coming fancies
- thriller
- traditionalism
- traditionality
- trip
- vision
- Western
- Western story
- Westerner
- whim
- whimsy
- whodunit
- whopper
- wildest dreams
- work of fiction
Definition
(n) :
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; 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]