Antonyms for autobiography
ˌɔ tə baɪˈɒg rə fi, -bi-, ˌɔ toʊ-au·to·bi·og·ra·phy

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1. autobiographynoun

   Antonyms:
   heterobiography

   Synonyms:
   memoir

2. autobiographynoun

   A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.

   Synonyms:
   memoir

   Antonyms:
   heterobiography

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1. autobiography

   History is a systematic record of past events. Annals and chronicles relate events with little regard to their relative importance, and with complete subserviency to their succession in time. Annals are yearly records; chronicles follow the order of time. Both necessarily lack emphasis, selection, and perspective. Archives are public records, which may be annals, or chronicles, or deeds of property, etc. Memoirs generally record the lives of individuals or facts pertaining to individual lives. A biography is distinctively a written account of one person's life and actions; an autobiography is a biography written by the person whose life it records. Annals, archives, chronicles, biographies, and memoirs and other records furnish the materials of history. History recounts events with careful attention to their importance, their mutual relations, their causes and consequences, selecting and grouping events on the ground of interest or importance. History is usually applied to such an account of events affecting communities and nations, tho sometimes we speak of the history of a single eminent life. Compare RECORD.

   See synonyms for FICTION.

   Synonyms:
   account, annals, archives, biography, chronicle, history, memoir, memorial, muniment, narration, narrative, recital, record, register, story

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Princeton's WordNet

1. autobiographynoun

   a biography of yourself

How to use autobiography in a sentence?

1. Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko:

   A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.

2. Philip Roth:

   It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

3. Samuel Goldwyn:

   I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

4. Katherine Paterson:

   Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

5. Hilaire Belloc:

   Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

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