different between theology vs mythology

English

Etymology

From Middle English theologie, from Middle French theologie, from Old French theologie, from Latin theologia, from Koine Greek ???????? (theología), from ???????? (theológos, adjective), from ???? (theós) + ????? (lógos). Surface analysis is theo- +? -logy.

Pronunciation

• enPR: th?-?l'?-j?, IPA^(key): /?i.??.l?.d?i/
• Rhymes: -?l?d?i

Noun

theology (usually uncountable, plural theologies)

1. (uncountable) The study of God, a god, or gods; and of the truthfulness of religion in general.
2. (countable) An organized method of interpreting spiritual works and beliefs into practical form.
3. (uncountable, computing, slang) Subjective marginal details.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:theology.

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References

• theology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• theology in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “theology, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2015-03-19
• Walter W. Skeat, editor (1910) , “Theology”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, new edition, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, OCLC 582746570, page 640.
• "theology" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.

Anagrams

• ethology

English

Etymology

First attested as Middle English [Term?] in 1412. From Middle French mythologie, from Latin mythologia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (muthología, “legend”) ????????? (muthologé?, “I tell tales”), from ????????? (muthológos, “legend”), from ????? (mûthos, “story”) + ???? (lég?, “I say”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: m?thôlôj?, IPA^(key): /m????l?d?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m????l?d?i/
• Rhymes: -?l?d?i

Noun

mythology (countable and uncountable, plural mythologies)

1. (countable and uncountable) The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.
2. (countable and uncountable) A similar body of myths concerning an event, person or institution.
   • 2003, Peter Utgaard, Remembering & Forgetting Nazism: Education, National Identity, and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria, Berghahn Books, ?ISBN, page x:

     This program to distinguish Austria from Germany was important to building a new Austria, but it also indirectly contributed to victim mythology by implying that participation in the Nazi war of conquest was antithetical to Austrian identity.

3. (countable and uncountable) Pervasive elements of a fictional universe that resemble a mythological universe.
   • 2000 April 28, Caryn James (?), As Scheherazade Was Saying . . ., in The New York Times, page E31, reproduced in The New York Times Television Reviews 2000, Routledge (2001), ?ISBN, page 198:

     This tongue-in-cheek episode is especially fun for people who don’t take their “X-Files” mythology seriously.

4. (uncountable) The systematic collection and study of myths.

Synonyms

• godlore

Derived terms

• mythological
• mythologist

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See also

• Christian mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Egyptian mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Greek mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Japanese mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Norse mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Roman mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Indian mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia