mythologization

English

Etymology

From mythologize +‎ -ation.

Noun

mythologization (countable and uncountable, plural mythologizations)

1. The act or process of mythologizing.
   • 2007 June 8, Alessandra Stanley, “Something’s Up, and It’s Not the Surf”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     But that doesn’t mean that the series is bad, just peculiar, a solemn mythologization — and mystification — of surfing as unearthly pleasure and life-sapping addiction.