MYTHMAKING Synonyms

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• a short moral story (often with animal characters)

• a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• writing in a fictional form

• the act of making something (a product) from raw materials

• the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)

• the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

• imagination unrestricted by reality

• fiction with a large amount of imagination in it

• something many people believe that is false

• indulge in fantasies

• a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture

• the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses

• the ability to form mental images of things or events

• the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems

• the creation of something in the mind

• a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation

• the act of inventing

• a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

• brief description accompanying an illustration

• knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote

• a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people

• myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person

• the study of myths

• a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

• consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story

• a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

• a trivial lie

• The act and skills of presenting stories and tales.