What's the difference between imaginary and mythological?

Imaginary


Definition:

  • (a.) Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal.
  • (n.) An imaginary expression or quantity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There's no doubt that MacMaster expended an enormous amount of effort compiling the blog and creating Gay Girl's persona: poems, long imaginary reminiscences – even warning readers to treat some other websites "with a very large grain of salt" – but to what purpose?
  • (2) "At first I thought we could take the six characters and transpose them to a time in the future after an imaginary climate apocalypse.
  • (3) The other Eurasian Union is “imaginary”, the brainchild of Putin, first mentioned in October 2011 .
  • (4) "I  had these imaginary friends who followed me around and made me do things," she says dismissively.
  • (5) The score should have been tied at 2-2 and the natural German retort that one of Geoff Hurst's goals in the 1966 World Cup was imaginary hardly makes the blunder of officials more palatable in Bloemfontein.
  • (6) The responses of accommodation and vergence were measured simultaneously with a dual Purkinje image eye tracker and infrared optometer while subjects viewed a Maltese cross monocularly through a pinhole pupil and made voluntary efforts to imaginary changes in target distance.
  • (7) Such imaginary groups, when compared to the sum as a whole, are about as worrisome as America's hockey moms turned out to be.
  • (8) Development factors include pre- operational thinking, which prevents future planning and may require experience with sex to learn about it, and egocentricism, which implies an imaginary audience and the personal fable that "it will never happen to me."
  • (9) of a centrosymmetric structure factor, (ii) effect of the presence of a centrosymmetric fragment in the asymmetric unit of a non-centrosymmetric space group, and (iii) effect of heavy scatterers in special positions of a non-centrosymmetric space group, where the imaginary part of the trigonometric structure factor for these special positions vanishes by symmetry.
  • (10) Imaginary Manchester-United-supporting-me was inspired.
  • (11) At 0.5 Hz in the same state of full adaptation during fixation of an imaginary earth-fixed target subjects exhibited a gain increase of only approximately 75% indicating that the contribution of VOR adjustment is not sufficient for perfect visual stabilization at lower frequencies.
  • (12) 'There's a kind of imaginary Venn diagram of our interests: we have a very shared middle ground that's a lot to do with comedy and music and visual language.
  • (13) The America of tomorrow will look vastly different than the imaginary America that Republicans are so eager to preserve.
  • (14) Diffraction tomographic reconstructions of simulated data reveal the importance of absorption, the behavior of the real and imaginary parts of the reconstructed refractive index, and the relative advantages and limitations of the Born and Rytov approximate transformations.
  • (15) This protophallus, the imaginary phallus and the phallus of the phallic phase are later all absorbed into the psychical representation of the penis and determine the mental image in the long term.
  • (16) Among others who seemed to wonder if the actor was behaving like someone from another planet was George Takei – Sulu in the original Star Trek – who said he was, in response, "drafting a DNC speech to [an] imaginary Romney in an empty factory".
  • (17) Hedo Turkoglu was busted for PED use Despite the fact that the use of performance enhancing drugs is one of the biggest stories in sports today, alongside other notable topics such as imaginary girlfriends and ill-timed power failures, the NBA world seems strangely immune to the controversy.
  • (18) At the Republican convention, Clint Eastwood performed an ill-fated comedy routine with a chair, on which was seated an imaginary Barack Obama .
  • (19) Imaginary United-supporting-me silently approved Sir Alex's ingenuity.
  • (20) The so-called "borderline cases" are classified nowadays into Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) or Schizotypal Personality Disorder (SPD) according to DSM-III-R. We discussed them as follows: The common pathology to them is their imaginary relationship to the object of identification.

Mythological


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to mythology or to myths; mythical; fabulous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This component of a more comprehensive study of Houdini focuses on the unusual reification of his family romance fantasies, their endurance well beyond the usual boundaries in time, their kinship with mythological themes, and their infusion with the ambivalence that is often addressed toward the true parents.
  • (2) The latter is something of a legend in Bowie mythology and rumoured to be the subject of his song Never Let Me Down .
  • (3) This mythology, embodied over those decades in the Horatio Alger stories consumed particularly by upwardly mobile young men and in the phrase "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", consistently held out that American promise by equating hard work (along with other good Puritan values such as delayed gratification, temperance, saving and self-reliance) with economic success.
  • (4) A sample of coitally experienced college females was utilized to explore the adequacy of several related beliefs that constitute the cultural mythology of female sexual initiation in American society and to identify possible correlates of the subjective experience of pain during women's first intercourse.
  • (5) Mythology, creativity, innovative planning, and systems theory are used to bring together two systems to form a new whole called M-I-D-D-L-E G-R-O-U-N-D.
  • (6) Eponymous syndrome nomenclature now includes the names of literary characters, patients' surnames, subjects of famous paintings, famous persons, geographic locations, institutions, biblical figures, and mythological characters.
  • (7) In her composition Land , the rock poet, who lived with Mapplethorpe at the Chelsea Hotel when they were in their 20s, creates a mythology that mirrors his leather fantasies.
  • (8) Paterson is steeped in the mythologies of the anti-environment movement.
  • (9) A brief review of the significance of the hand in the mythology, folklore, and religion of Ireland from ancient times is presented.
  • (10) The sexual abuse of women today is analyzed alongside the mythology of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
  • (11) In our past, we have both Venus and the crucifix, the Bible and Nordic mythology, which we remember with Christmas trees, or with the many festivals of St Lucy, St Nicolas and Santa Claus.
  • (12) Amazon may share its name with mythology's greatest female warriors, but the world's largest online retailer employs just 18 women among its 120 most senior managers, and none of them report directly to the boss.
  • (13) In the beginning, then, this mythology goes, the biologist was in the middle of the ocean, "surrounded by venomous sea serpents", preparing to meet his genome.
  • (14) She’s performed her poems in bookshops, theatres, prisons, universities, music festivals and schools, where teachers have used her work to introduce their students to Greek mythology.
  • (15) The paperwork was lost for ever when the town fell and, like so much else in Gbadolite, that moment in the sun is fading into mythology.
  • (16) It is used to marginalise and persecute independent voices, dumb down debate, and support the mythological notion of a Russia alone and besieged in a hostile world.
  • (17) For years the so-called White Walkers, a zombie race of wispy-haired, dead-horse-riding weirdos (think: Vince Cable 50 years dead and taller) were presumed mythological or extinct.
  • (18) Australia has been gripped by Anzac mythology since the late 1980s.
  • (19) "I do not like the ideological interpretations, this kind of Pope Francis mythology," he said.
  • (20) Not insignificantly, rejection of science over religious mythology is distinctly partisan: 48% of Republicans, versus 27% of Democrats, "just say no" to Darwin.