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mytho-

Myth.

Greek muthos, myth, or English myth plus ‑o‑.

A mythographer is a writer or collector of myths; mythopoeia is the making of a myth or myths; mythomania is an abnormal or pathological tendency to exaggerate or tell lies.

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