Background and Folklore

Background

Background noun - The physical conditions or features that form the setting against which something is viewed.

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Folklore and background are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Folklore" instead a noun "Background".

Folklore noun - The body of customs, beliefs, stories, and sayings associated with a people, thing, or place.

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Background and folklore are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Background" instead a noun "Folklore".

common	common background	common folklore
original	original background	original folklore
many	many background	many folklore
actual	actual background	actual folklore
Other adjectives: real, rural, religious, general, Christian.

Their conflation of various words of today's English (notably "Adam" and "atom") lead to much of the background, folklore, and plot.

Source: Language Drift
Romanticism Versus Enlightenment: Calvino had a strong scientific background, and he admitted a fondness for the 18th Century, so he's very much on the Enlightened spectrum, on the other hand his books celebrate the natural world and folklore, which is very much a Romantic fixation.

Source: Creator / Italo Calvino

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