mythicism

1. (countable, uncountable)The scholarly opinion that the gospels are mythological expansions of historical data.

2. (countable, uncountable)The habitual practice of attributing everything to mythological causes; superstition, the opposite of rationalism, or of realism.

   1911 "The Californias were an inaccessible and mysterious Occident, invested in the imagination of most mankind with almost Babylonian mythicism." (R. G. Badger, Don Sagasto's daughter)

3. (countable, uncountable)The creative potential for the creation of mythology; the faculty of mythopoeia.

   1971 "Individual works are all potential myths, but it is their collective adoption that actualises - if such should be the case - their 'mythicism'." (Levi-Strauss)

4. (countable, uncountable)The view that a certain figure or event is unhistorical or mythical, chiefly in the context of pseudo-scholarship.

5. The view that a certain figure or event is unhistorical or mythical, chiefly in the context of pseudo-scholarship.

   (countable, uncountable)The opinion that Jesus of Nazareth did not exist.

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