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demythologizing

demythologizing is the present participle and gerund of demythologize.

Meaning of demythologize

Verb

demythologize (third-person singular simple present demythologizes, present participle demythologizing, simple past and past participle demythologized)

  1. (transitive) To remove the mythological elements of.
    • Near-synonym: euhemerize (demythologizing sense)
    Synonyms:
    demyth, euhemerize

Questions about demythologizing

What is demythologizing the present participle and gerund of?
Demythologizing is the present participle and gerund of demythologize.

Words near demythologizing in the dictionary

  1. demythologize
  2. demythologized
  3. demythologizer
  4. demythologizers
  5. demythologizes
  6. demythologizing
  7. demyths
  8. den
  9. Den Bosch
  10. Den Helder
  11. den mother

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Adapted from Wiktionary: demythologizing (page history and authors); demythologize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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