iconotropy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. the accidental or deliberate misinterpretation by one culture of the icons or myths of an earlier one, especially so as to bring them into accord with those of the later one

Word forms

iconotropy

Etymology

From icon + -o- + -tropy.

Related words

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