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English
Etymology
From anti- + myth.
Noun
antimyth (plural antimyths)
- (sociology) A belief or system that opposes a myth or myths.
1996, John R. Maier, Desert Songs, page 86:On a deeper level, Stivers believes, there is "an underlying commonality" to myth and ritual of traditional societies and the antimyth of modern, technological society.
2004, Howard Schwartz, Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism:Indeed, one way of reading this is not as a myth, but as an antimyth, intended to limit further mythic development.
Translations
a belief or system that opposes a myth or myths