autobiography

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Noun

autobiography

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

   • Autobiography […] inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth […]

Synonyms

• memoir
• life story

Antonyms

• heterobiography

Related terms

• biography

Translations

• French: autobiographie
• German: Autobiografie, Selbstbiographie, Lebenserinnerungen
• Italian: autobiografia
• Portuguese: autobiografia
• Russian: автобиогра́фия
• Spanish: autobiografía

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